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Barbara - 24 Jan 2004 16:50 GMT

Is there a way to do a mail merge without going through
the mail merge wizard?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 25 Jan 2004 00:24 GMT

From the View menu, select Toolbars and then check the Mail merge item and
the mailmerge toolbar will be displayed. The buttons on this toolbar give
you access to all the mailmerge features (and it is a lot more convenient to
use).

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> Is there a way to do a mail merge without going through
> the mail merge wizard?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 26 Jan 2004 17:02 GMT

Hi Doug,

> The buttons on this toolbar give
> you access to all the mailmerge features (and it is a lot more convenient to
> use).

Well, almost all... No way to link up to Outlook by default.

Cindy Meister

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hkbs - 26 Jan 2004 22:39 GMT

This doesn't seem to work on Word 2000 - the mail merge toolbar doesn't
appear on the View | Toolbars list!
hkbs

> > The buttons on this toolbar give
> > you access to all the mailmerge features (and it is a lot more convenient to
> > use).

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 27 Jan 2004 15:47 GMT

Hi Hkbs,

> This doesn't seem to work on Word 2000 - the mail merge toolbar doesn't
> appear on the View | Toolbars list!

That's correct. The "Mail merge wizard" doesn't exist in Word 2000; it's
part of Word 2002/2003. So the information in this thread isn't
applicable to Word 2000.

For Word 2000 and earlier, you only have access to the Mail Merge Toolbar
if the document you are viewing is a main merge document. And that you
can only get by going over Tools/Mail Merge.

What you could do, however, if you really wanted mail merge functionality
on "just any toolbar" would be to pull the commands out of
Tools/Customize/Commands, category "All Commands".

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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