Lost email merge

[Alan Neibauer]

I had merge to email working in Word 2000 by adding
MAPIX=1 to WIN.INI. When I just upgraded to Office 2003,
the email and fax merge are no longer available. MAPIX=1
is still there, but I can't do an email merge. Any hints?
Thanks!

 

[Peter Jamieson]

For Word 2003, MS has put these entries in the Registry where they have
belonged for years. The trouble is that I do not know what actually puts the
correct entries in there, and editing the registry can be dangerous unless
you know what you are doing.

But you need to ensure that the folowing Key is in your Registry:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Messaging Subsystem

You then need the follwing value (at least) within that key:

Name: MAPIX
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: 1

You may also need some of the other ones you may have in your WIN.INI, e.g.

Name: CMC
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: 1

Name: CMCDLLNAME
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: mapi.dll

Name: CMCDLLNAME32
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: mapi32.dll

Name: MAPI
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: 1

Name: MAPIXVER
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: 1.0.0.1

Name: Olemessaging
Type: String Value (REG_SZ)
Value: 1

 

[Alan]

Thanks. I'll try it.
Alan

 

[Alan Neibauer]

It worked! Thanks so much, your help is appreciated. I
depend on that feature a lot. It is just amazing that
Office didn't install that key in the first place...the
MAPIX one worked.

Alan

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Yes, I don't know what does that either - I'll ask around.