Word/Outlook personalized email

[Tania]

Hi,
I have created a mail merge in Word with Excel (2000) as
a datasource to personalize it. The datasource has approx
100 records. Once I merge the Doc I want to be able to
email (through Outlook) the customized page to the
specific customer not the entire merged document . In
other words I want "Bob" to only get the page that is
customized for him and "Mary" get her page. Is there any
way that this can be done? If so, how? If not, what other
method can I use? Please help I have spent more than half
the day trying to figure this out!

Thank you in advance for your help!!!

Tania

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Tania,

It sounds to me like you haven't quite gotten to the last
step that actually executes the mail merge. In the mail merge
toolbar, look for a button with three dots (labelled mail
merge...). Click it.

Near the top you should find a list that lets you choose the
"destination" of the merge result. Currently, this is
probably something like "new document". Choose "Email",
instead.

I have created a mail merge in Word with Excel (2000) as
a datasource to personalize it. The datasource has approx
100 records. Once I merge the Doc I want to be able to
email (through Outlook) the customized page to the
specific customer not the entire merged document . In
other words I want "Bob" to only get the page that is
customized for him and "Mary" get her page. Is there any
way that this can be done? If so, how? If not, what other
method can I use? Please help I have spent more than half
the day trying to figure this out!

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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