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Tracy - 19 Dec 2003 14:59 GMT

I am trying to do an e-mail merge in Word. Everything
looks fine in the actual document. Hyperlinks for e-mail
addresses and web site are present and I choose my data
soure and click on merge to e-mail. HTML is selected as
the type of document to be sent. I checked my
outlook "options" and I send and receive in HTML. When I
merge the data and the document is actually sent, the
links have all been removed in the message.

If I send a regular message in outlook (non-merge) and I
type in the web address in the text, send it, the
hyperlink is maintained

How do I keep these links present in the actual merged e-
mail

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 19 Dec 2003 23:38 GMT

Hi Tracy,

You need Word XP SP2 for the hyperlinks to be preserved in the email.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> I am trying to do an e-mail merge in Word. Everything
> looks fine in the actual document. Hyperlinks for e-mail
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> How do I keep these links present in the actual merged e-
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Tracy - 20 Dec 2003 00:29 GMT

Thanks so much for the reply. I have Word 2002 and I was
really surprised when that function didn't work. I was
working all day trying to get it to work and actually
learned a lot about other functions in the process. Is
the e-mail merge a relatively new feature because I
assumed it should work? So I guess I am out of luck in
that regard. Thanks again. Tracy

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 20 Dec 2003 02:28 GMT

Hi Tracy,

Word 2002 is the same as Word XP, and you can download Service Pack 2 (SP2)
from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1A8CE553-AB76-4A63-99DA
-B4ED914C1514&displaylang=EN

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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> really surprised when that function didn't work. I was
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- 22 Dec 2003 14:39 GMT

Thanks again!!! I greatly appreciate it.

Tracy

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