Mail Merge using Word and Outlook 2007

[Francisco]

I´ve beenm trying to send out a mail merge thru Outlook 2007 but I´m having
trouble in the Outlook portion of the process.

I create the mail and select all recipients from a Excel ( xlsx ) file that
contais over 7k names and emails. The creation process goes smoothly.

When I give the Finish & Merge --> Send Email Messages it prompts for my
Outlook Contacts. As the names in the excel file was not loaded in Outlook.
Is there a way that I can surpass this contact verification?

I´ve done this before using Office 2003 and had no problems. Why does this
happens in 2007?

thanks

 

[Gordon]

I´ve beenm trying to send out a mail merge thru Outlook 2007 but I´m
having
trouble in the Outlook portion of the process.

I create the mail and select all recipients from a Excel ( xlsx ) file
that
contais over 7k names and emails. The creation process goes smoothly.

When I give the Finish & Merge --> Send Email Messages it prompts for my
Outlook Contacts. As the names in the excel file was not loaded in
Outlook.
Is there a way that I can surpass this contact verification?

I´ve done this before using Office 2003 and had no problems. Why does this
happens in 2007?

thanks

I think 2007 works differently from prior versions. Try doing it from Word.
Click on the Mailings tab, and in the Choose Recipients button, it allows
you to choose a data source other than Outlook.

HTH

 

[Francisco]

Hi Gordon,

I´ve done that already. Even though I select my Excel file as data source
and all recipients are ok - when a give the last command to send out the
mailing it prompts me an Outlook Window stating that the contact I´m looking
is not in my contact list in Outlook - it gives me the option to cancel or
insert contact - the main issue is that if I cancel - it skips the contact
and if I enter to add - It opens the New Contact window and a have to add it
manually - ok for 3 or 4 contacts... but my excel file has over 7000 names
and emails.

Is this standard in Office 2007? Was it something I did wrong in setup? All
I´m looking for is a way to bypass this cross checking between the excel file
and my contact list from Outlook.

thanks

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon,

I´ve done that already. Even though I select my Excel file as data source
and all recipients are ok - when a give the last command to send out the
mailing it prompts me an Outlook Window stating that the contact I´m
looking
is not in my contact list in Outlook - it gives me the option to cancel or
insert contact - the main issue is that if I cancel - it skips the contact
and if I enter to add - It opens the New Contact window and a have to add
it
manually - ok for 3 or 4 contacts... but my excel file has over 7000 names
and emails.

Is this standard in Office 2007? Was it something I did wrong in setup?
All
I´m looking for is a way to bypass this cross checking between the excel
file
and my contact list from Outlook.

Strange - I've just done a test mail merge in Word 2007 using email
addresses in an Excel workbook as the data source - all I got was the
standard warning "An application is trying to send email through Outlook
yada, yada, yada". No mention anywhere of trying to insert contacts from
outlook.
Did you try doing it with the Mail merge wizard? That's what I did...