Did you set up Outlook to be your default e-mail program (e.g. in Control
Panel|Internet Properties|Programs). Typically you would see a whole bunch
of security-related messages when you merge to e-mail via Outlook, and if
you are not, that suggests that Word might still be sending to Thunderbird.

Peter Jamieson

"jpodell" wrote in message
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I already merged my contacts list, which included emails as well as name
and
company, from excel 2003 into my letter on word 2003. Now, when I click on
the email merge button it won't email. I usually use thunderbird as my
email
client but i read on the word help site that I needed to use a compatable
email client so I set up outlook 2003 to carry my email. I have tried
sending
my test copy to myself in different formats but this does not work either.
When I tried to send the whole list the program looked like it was busy
for a
few moments but it didn't actually do any
thing. Am I doing something wrong?