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Yellowhouse1976 - 26 Jul 2005 16:42 GMT

I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the office and I
want to be able to link to contact information within Outlook so that the
info is inserted at the click of a button. Is this possible? The only other
way I can think of doing this would be to use the letter wizard within
Outlook which will do a similar task but I cant see any way of changing the
layout of the letter which has an American format of date first which I dont
want. Any help would be appreciated.

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Peter Jamieson - 26 Jul 2005 19:04 GMT

Generally speaking it's easier to start from the Outlook end of things. In
recent versions of Office you can select a contact folder (and an individual
contact in that folder) and use Outlook Tools|Mail Merge to perform a merge
to it. Once you have set up a suitable mail merge template you can re-use
it.

if that doesn't do what you need, you might be able to find some useful VBA
code at http://www.slipstick.com - also, if you search this newsgroup on
Google Groups for "jamieson outlook inspector" - the article I'm thinking of
is dated Sep 28 2003

Peter Jamieson

>I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the office and
>I
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> want. Any help would be appreciated.

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Graham Mayor - 27 Jul 2005 07:34 GMT

See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

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> I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the
> office and I want to be able to link to contact information within
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> an American format of date first which I dont want. Any help would
> be appreciated.

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Yellowhouse1976 - 27 Jul 2005 11:51 GMT

Graham, I have had a quick look at your sight and this seems to be more of
what I was looking for. I just hope I can incorporate the macros as I have
never used them before, wish me luck. Thanks Jude

> See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm
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> > an American format of date first which I dont want. Any help would
> > be appreciated.

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Graham Mayor - 27 Jul 2005 14:43 GMT

If you don't know what to do with the code see my other page
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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> Graham, I have had a quick look at your sight and this seems to be
> more of what I was looking for. I just hope I can incorporate the
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>>> which has an American format of date first which I dont want. Any
>>> help would be appreciated.

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Yellowhouse1976 - 27 Jul 2005 15:37 GMT

Thanks so much,

> If you don't know what to do with the code see my other page
> http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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> >>> which has an American format of date first which I dont want. Any
> >>> help would be appreciated.

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