mail merge protection

[D. Jarrett]

How do i protect a mail merge document? For example i would like to send an
email merge with the document attached but i do not want the recipients to be
able to edit the text in the document.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "Mail Merge to E-mail with Attachments" at

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

and

See the "Individual Merge Letters" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at:

http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm

If you are using Word XP or later, the "Add-in to Merge Letters to Separate
Files" that I have written and that can be downloaded from that site will
allow you to create each letter as a separate file with a filename taken
from a field in the data source with a minimum of fuss.

Use the ability of that Add-in to create .pdf files so that the user cannot
edit them.


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[D. Jarrett]

Thanks for your response but making individual files will force me to have to
send each document as a separate email. Is there any way around that? The
purpose of me running a mail merge is to send the same letter to clients with
their personal information all at once to cut down on the time to manually
send each separate document. In addition i do not want the client to be able
to edit the document.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I gave you two links to look at. A combination of the two will allow you to
automate most of the operation.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP