I'll have a go with a mail merge main document created in a similar way to
yours
Unfortunately, mine seems to work OK even doing that, I haven't tried
merging more than 100 records as everyone else with this problem reports a
crash at somewhere between 20 and 40.
So if you have a crash ID, so much the better!
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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A number of other people have reported similar problems with only 30-40
email merges going through. I was trying to find out a bit more about this
but had not been able to replicate the problem. Can you provide a crash ID
(from Application Event Logs in the Event Viewer) - someone at MS should be
able to see if the problem is already being investigated as a consequence
of automated arror reporting.
I'll have a go with a mail merge main document created in a similar way to
yours and see if I can trigger a crash and get an ID that way.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"jonw" wrote in message
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I have a user that is copying and pasting a (largish) grid from a webpage
(file size around 500k) in Word 2007 and then doing a mail merge with
that to
Outlook 2007. When they are finished stepping through the wizard, Word
does a
saving bar at the bottom and ends up using 99% cpu cycles and then dying.
The
contacts list is around 4400 names and at best around 25 get out before
the
whole shebang dies. This going through our Exchange server 2003 via POP.
I should note that when doing a mail merge with a 'regular' Word doc, it
seems to go much smoother. When it is just a bit of text, I see it
'temp-saving' the file over and over, but when it has some substance,
that
'temp-saving' is just killing the computer basically.
Basically I am trying to figure out if the problem is with the pasting of
web page content (with links etc...) is causing the break or if it is
just
something with the sizes involved. I should note that she did this same
procedure using an attached pdf instead of the word doc (not really using
the
mail merge fields, just using that interface to launch the mail) and
those
failed as well, but with that one she got back 'header too large-limit
32k'
messages.