excel to word mail merge security annoyances

[StrunkWriter]

I’m using Office 2000 Suite with SP03. I have an excel spread sheet I use to
mail merge a list of newspaper/magazine contacts to press releases. Because
publishers prefer electronic files, I tried to mail merge to email. This
worked, but there is a security safeguard that is driving me nuts!!

When I click “merge,†I first get a message that says another program
(Word) is trying to send email using outlook and whether that is OK or not. I
select allow access for ## minutes based on how long I expect the merge to
take and click “YES.â€

Then, I get ANOTHER popup that asks if it’s OK to send the message. And
there is a FIVE SECOND delay before I can click yes. When I have to click
“YES†up to 30 times to send a group of press releases to their proper
destinations, it is annoying and troublesome.

Yes, I did try to do a merge through outlook. My database is so big, it
takes a long time to get stuff through that way, too. Plus, it took me months
to get the Excel Spreadsheets organized just the way I want them.

Is there a way to temporarily disable this security feature while I am
sending press releases?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I’m using Office 2000 Suite with SP03. I have an excel spread sheet I use to
mail merge a list of newspaper/magazine contacts to press releases. Because
publishers prefer electronic files, I tried to mail merge to email. This
worked, but there is a security safeguard that is driving me nuts!!

When I click “merge,†I first get a message that says another program
(Word) is trying to send email using outlook and whether that is OK or not. I
select allow access for ## minutes based on how long I expect the merge to
take and click “YES.â€

There's a tool out there you can use to circumvent this.

http://www.express-soft.com/mailmate/clickyes.html

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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