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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing
MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text
of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my
stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be
choosing Letter. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't
have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Er...actually I wrote too soon...I hope this is the right way to post a
message to keep the thread going. Outlook now appears to be interfering with the mail merge email addresses from the source data / directoryfile and superimposing email addresses on the contacts for which it has different emails. I do have data duplication between my Outlook and my source data, and some of the details (home vs work emails etc) are different. Can I turn this interference off and just have Outlook accept the addresses I feed in, regard;ess of what it 'thinks'? -- Grapevine "Grapevine" wrote: That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . |
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