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christophe - 07 Feb 2006 12:35 GMT

Hi,

I've made a mailmerge document with a dbf table.
so far no problem

But when I click on "mailmerge to email"
I get a message "can not directly send a catalog that was made with
mailmerge to email, fax or printer"
there is no errornumber and this is translated from my dutch version of
Msword.

Does somebody knows why I cannot mailmerge a document to email ?

kind regards
christophe

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 07 Feb 2006 13:01 GMT

A catalog type mail merge can only be executed to a new document. You can
then email that document if you wish to send it to someone.

A formletter type mail merge document can however be executed to email and
perhaps that is the type of document that you should be using

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> Hi,
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> kind regards
> christophe

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christophe - 07 Feb 2006 14:18 GMT

Indeed,

Why didn't they (read: MSWord) made this not more obvious ?
That message didn't help me any further.
It took my hours...

thanks a lot
christophe

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>A catalog type mail merge can only be executed to a new document. You can
>then email that document if you wish to send it to someone.
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>> kind regards
>> christophe

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