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Name: uptoeleven
Date: February 9, 2009 at 16:27:06 Pacific
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
CPU/Ram: 2.188 GHz / 3326 MB
Product: Compaq / Ek335aa-abu sr1619uk gb540
Subcategory: Microsoft Office
Comment:

I know I'm not the first on here to have a "huh?" moment with this:

I am trying to do a mail merge to email between Word and Outlook on Office 2003 using a simple list of emails from an Excel file. All goes well, document builds, data source accepted, whole thing put together just fine.

Step 6 of the process is the merge to email. Apparently "Mail merge is ready to produce your e-mail messages" below which is the heading "Merge" then a link "Electronic Mail..."

I get to select which ones I want to send (all of them or I wouldn't have gone through this process) and then...

nothing...

at all...

which is a shame because it worked last week and I've not made any config changes to the machine or the network or anything else that Office might barf over. Infact barfing would be nice - there's no error, nothing in the Event logs, just a big, fat, nothing.

I'm confused. Obviously from a programming perspective someone has put in code that catches all errors thrown and then just ignores them. It's kind of irrelevant. I know others have encountered this one before, other than sending each email by hand, or reinstalling Office, did anyone find a solution?

Help?



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: February 10, 2009 at 12:15:17 Pacific
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Add the emails to the Outlook Contacts. Then start your Mail Merge from Outlook. That's the "proper" and "recommended" way.

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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