Can I start Word with Mail Merge wizard open?

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turtle-1975 - 01 Mar 2007 04:13 GMT

Nearly every document I use at work is a mailmerge. Is there a way to start
Word with the mail merge wizard open? I tried recording a macro so I can just
hit the macro button every time I start up word (Macro doesn't seem to record
the menu selections though). That is, I don't want to click on tools, then
letters and mailings, then mail merge every time I open a mail merge document.

Thanks.
Heather

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Mar 2007 04:43 GMT

From the View menu, select Toolbars and then check the Mail Merge item.
That will cause the Mail Merge toolbar to be displayed and it contains
buttons for all of the operations required for mailmerge.

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> Nearly every document I use at work is a mailmerge. Is there a way to
> start
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> Thanks.
> Heather

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turtle-1975 - 01 Mar 2007 09:27 GMT

Thanks, I have the toolbar up already, what I want is the wizard which comes
up down the right hand side to come up automatically...

Heather

> From the View menu, select Toolbars and then check the Mail Merge item.
> That will cause the Mail Merge toolbar to be displayed and it contains
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> > Heather

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Peter Jamieson - 01 Mar 2007 09:53 GMT

You can do it by creating an AutoOpen macro in your Normal.dot, e.g.

Sub Autoopen()

Application.TaskPanes(wdTaskPaneMailMerge).Visible = True

End Sub

(See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DocumentEvents.htm for furthe info.
about "Auto" macros and and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm if you're unfamiliar
with VBA macros)

Personally, I prefer the toolbar which does /most/ of what mailmergers need
and occupies a lot less space, so I'm interested to know whether you simply
prefer the wizard or have to use it, e.g. because
a. you want to connect to an Outlook contacts folder within Word
b. you use merges that use Word's MailMerge events (one of which only works
properly if you start the merge from the wizard)
c. someone has customised your wizard
d. some other reason

Peter Jamieson

> Thanks, I have the toolbar up already, what I want is the wizard which
> comes
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>> > Heather

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turtle-1975 - 01 Mar 2007 10:23 GMT

Hi,

Thanks! That works wonderfully. In answer to your question, I just find it
easier to use the wizard... and I never noticed that there is an 'edit
recipient list' type option on the toolbar (don't know how I missed it!).
Perhaps I'll be adventurous and start using the toolbar instead since I have
it there all the time anyway.

Heather

> You can do it by creating an AutoOpen macro in your Normal.dot, e.g.
>
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Graham Mayor - 01 Mar 2007 11:40 GMT

In that case you should find
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm useful.

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turtle-1975 - 01 Mar 2007 12:02 GMT

Thanks.

> In that case you should find
> http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm useful.
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> >>>>> Heather

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Peter Jamieson - 01 Mar 2007 12:44 GMT

Thanks for the feedback...

Peter Jamieson

> Hi,
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