[mso] Re: Word E-Mail Merge
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:18:09 -0500
1. The only way I know of to get rid of that nagging box where you have to
click yes all the time is by using a little freeware program called
"clickyes" which just does it for you. I use it for email merges all the
time and it works great. You can download it here:
http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/
2. As far as I know, there's no way to tell Word to send certain messages in
one format and others in another (unless it's possible with VBA or
something, but I wouldn't know that). So, yes, you could either make a
separate Access table for each set of addresses and use one for each...or
you can add a field to the access table that specifies which format you want
used for that person, then in step 3 of the mail merge, you can click on the
Edit Recipients button and use the dropdowns at the top of the field names
to choose which ones you want to send to this time (the dropdown would give
you the choice of whatever you had in that field...so if you had html for
some and rich text for others and plain text for others, you could simply
choose which one you want and the merge would be sent to only those that had
that format in that field)
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Scot Jones
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:24 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Word E-Mail Merge
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
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