I for some reason cant even get outlook to work with gmail or hotmail. I dont
know if this realy has anything to do with this problem but im using 2007

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I don't think you will be able to use Thunderbird because Word uses MAPI to
send its e-mails when merging and Thurderbird does not implement it (at
least, not when I last looked).

Personally, I would probably try to set things up so I used Outlook Express
for merges and switched back to Thunderbird for everything else, but if you
prefer not to have IE/OE on your system, that's a non-starter.

Sorry.

Peter Jamieson
"jon" wrote in message
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I am trying to figure out how to set up mail merge because I alwayse get an
error message that it cant be completed. I would use outlook if I could
get
it to work with my email or if i wanted to part with thunderbird.