Enhance merge to email feature of word with cc: merge field.

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Efficeint Word User - 30 Mar 2005 20:29 GMT

I would like the merge to email feature of Word to be enhanced so that you
can merge more than one email address. For instance, I send individualize
grade reports to students. If I want to send the same reports to each
student's parents, then I have to do the merge again. It would be great if I
could send the reports to both students and parents in a single merge. One
possible idea is for there to be a carbon copy (cc:) selection to choose
another field. But hopefully there is a better idea so that I wouldn't be
limited again to only using 1 or 2 emails. For instance, if I want to send
the same report to each student's counsellor.

I tried making a field that contained "student@email.com; parent@email.com;
counsellor@email.com", but Word or Outlook couldn't work with it.

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Doug Robbins - 03 Apr 2005 12:01 GMT

The easiest thing for you to do is to create additional records in the data
source for each of the cc recipients.

Otherwise, you can use a macro that makes use of the Outlook Object Model to
access the cc field, but it is a bit involved and the above suggestion may
be the easiest.

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>I would like the merge to email feature of Word to be enhanced so that you
> can merge more than one email address. For instance, I send individualize
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> parent@email.com;
> counsellor@email.com", but Word or Outlook couldn't work with it.

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Efficeint Word User - 05 Apr 2005 05:05 GMT

Thank you for your reply. I just hope Microsoft takes notice of my request
and makes the needed upgrade to the merge to email.

> The easiest thing for you to do is to create additional records in the data
> source for each of the cc recipients.
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> > parent@email.com;
> > counsellor@email.com", but Word or Outlook couldn't work with it.

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