Karen Stephen,
1. Open Word> FILE> New Document> Select Email Message> Select the Excel
file as your source> Select the recipients> Construct the message with
message and all the Mergefields that you need. Do not insert the
email_address field, into the message body.
2. On the MailMerge toolbar> Select Merge to Email> You will have to option
to send to the email address mergefield, this will put a recipient's email
address in the TO Line: for each message, you will not need to use the CC:
or BCC: Line> Also add you subject line manually that you want to use>
Select OK.
3. You will get a warning that some program is trying to access the Outlook
Address book> Select Yes each time to send each message> there is a third
party program called ClickYes that has been recommended to avoid this. I
personally have not used it, so I have no opinion on its merits.

ClickYes Download:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/clickyes.html

I am trying to do a mail merge in Outlook. I have all of the e-mail
addresses
in an Excel file. I can't figure out how to get the e-mail addresses in to
the To:, CC: or BCC: fields. The e-mail addresses keep ending up in the body
of my message next to the greeting line, even if I put the cursor elsewhere.
Everything works fine until we get to the e-mail address part of the mail
merge. Is there some trick I am missing?