Per Linda's suggestion that distribution lists sent via BCC are being picked up as spam (side note: is it just me, or is it only spammers that can keep up with how to send out a bunch of e-mails and NOT have them labeled as spam?), I have tried an e-mail merge with Word/Outlook 2003. It works great, except: 1. Upon final merge, Word is forcing me to answer "yes" for every individual e-mail (a daunting task for my e-newsletter for Management which is hundreds of names) - citing that if this is unsuspected, it might contain a virus. Is there any way around this? 2. Is there any way to designate which e-mails I would want to send as Rich Text and/or HTML versus plain text, or would I need two separate tables within Access (I have everyone entered in an Access table). Thank You, everyone. And thank you, Linda for this idea. It is much more personal to be able to place people's names throughout the e-mail. Scot Jones ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************