Email Merge with Attachments

[Bigropes]

I have Word 2002 and am using the email merge feature for
a small mass mailing. The merge wizard allows me to write
the email text and merge the addresses but I also want
each email to have an attachment. I don't know how to add
the attachment using the merge wizard (never prompts for
the attachment to be made to the form letter text of the
email). I'm pretty sure that there must be a way to do
this but don't know how. Could someone point me in the
right direction?? Thanks.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Bigropes,

I have Word 2002 and am using the email merge feature for
a small mass mailing. The merge wizard allows me to write
the email text and merge the addresses but I also want
each email to have an attachment... I'm pretty sure that there must be a way to do
this but don't know how.

Actually, Word does NOT include this functionality. Check the
mvps.org/word website for a macro tool provided by Doug
Robbins.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Bigropes]

Hi Cindy,
I looked on the site and you were right about the macro.
Unfortunately I am PC illiterate but don't think I have
access to Visual Basic which Mr. Robbins was calling for.
I tried doing the same thing from Outlook. It seems to
allow you to set up in an email format and add attachments
before you do the merge, but when you send the merged
documents they lose the attachments. I read on another
website where another person experienced the same
problem. The capability appears to be available using the
Outlook approach but can't figure out why the attachments
are dropped. Any suggestions on how to pursue this
approach? Thanks.