I’m using Office 2000 Suite with SP03. I have an excel spread sheet I use to
mail merge a list of newspaper/magazine contacts to press releases. Because
publishers prefer electronic files, I tried to mail merge to email. This
worked, but there is a security safeguard that is driving me nuts!!

When I click “merge,”  I first get a message that says another program
(Word) is trying to send email using outlook and whether that is OK or not. I
select allow access for ## minutes based on how long I expect the merge to
take and click “YES.”

Then, I get ANOTHER popup that asks if it’s OK to send the message. And
there is a FIVE SECOND delay before I can click yes. When I have to click
“YES” up to 30 times to send a group of press releases to their proper
destinations, it is annoying and troublesome.

Yes, I did try to do a merge through outlook. My database is so big, it
takes a long time to get stuff through that way, too. Plus, it took me months
to get the Excel Spreadsheets organized just the way I want them.

Is there a way to temporarily disable this security feature while I am
sending press releases?