[mso] E-mail merge using Access and Word

I am the administrator of an email list at a middle school.

We can not use an online mail manager because we can only sub people who 
have students in the school..therefore I have a list of students that are 
pulled in from the county records into excel, then Access.

this is the way we are doing it next year (using outlook 2002/xp, word 
2002/xp, access2002/xp) :
all students names, id numbers, grade, email (if any) is put in Access.
We start a letter in word..using the mail merge with email (so far, so good)
the last step we pick the email field (duh) to mail to...(so far, so good)

some students have more than one email address (one for mom, one for dad, etc.)

so I wanted to make a second field called 2nd email..which would have 
worked..but we would have to send the message out twice (first time for 
email, second for 2nd email)

then I thought..hey..I'll put ALL email addresses in the ONE email field 
separated by a comma and send like that..

well..it works flawlessly from home..using Eudora

so I go to work where we are forced to use Outlook Exchange..I can not for 
the life of me send it out ..This is what happens:

On first send using comma to separate the addresses in the address field 
(which works fine at home using Eudora)..I get this message:


Microsoft Outlook does not recognize "emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx, 
otheraddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

"if you used a comma to separate several addresses; click cancel and change 
the commas to semicolons and try to send again"

So I change it to semicolon NO Space and I get:

Microsoft Outlook does not 
recognize  "emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx;otheraddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

So I change it to semicolon SPACE and I get:

Microsoft Outlook does not recognize "emailaddress@xxxxxxxxx; 
otheraddress@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

I put the semicolon on the end of the second address..same thing

Seems like it WANTS semicolons as opposed to commas..but I don't know what 
format (space, no space, both addresses, one address)...grrrrrrrrr

What does outlook want?? (outlook 2002/xp, word 2002/xp, access2002/xp)


---Thanks,
Cherie

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