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Attachment difficulties!
I am following the instructions from
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm I am using Windows 98 and Word 2000. I have Outlook installed but use Outlook Express for email. I check the item Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library under Word Tools|Macro|VB Editor|Tools|References. I can create a separate Catalogue identifying the required attachment (a PDF). I can execute the mail merge, to a new document. With the new document open I can run the macro as instructed, but experience the following: 1) The correct number of personalised emails is created but none have an attachment. 2) At some point during my experiments the personalised emails stopped being created in Outlook Express and are now created in Outlook. 3) The macro appears not to be saved and has to be re-created for each mail merge. 4) The Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library un-checks itself after each mail merge. Please help me to solve these problems? |
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The fact that the files were not attached points to there being a difference
between the actual path\filename and the path\filename that appears in the catalog mailmerge document. Just one extra space will cause it not to work. The macro should be created in either the normal.dot template (not necessarily recommended), or in another template that you place in the Word startup folder. Any template in that location becomes an Add-in to Word and the code in it can be used in all documents. -- 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 "Hunza321" wrote in message news I am following the instructions from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm I am using Windows 98 and Word 2000. I have Outlook installed but use Outlook Express for email. I check the item Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library under Word Tools|Macro|VB Editor|Tools|References. I can create a separate Catalogue identifying the required attachment (a PDF). I can execute the mail merge, to a new document. With the new document open I can run the macro as instructed, but experience the following: 1) The correct number of personalised emails is created but none have an attachment. 2) At some point during my experiments the personalised emails stopped being created in Outlook Express and are now created in Outlook. 3) The macro appears not to be saved and has to be re-created for each merge. 4) The Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library un-checks itself after each merge. Please help me to solve these problems? |
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Thanks for your guidance Doug.
I did type an incorrect path\filename and placing the macro as .DOT in the WORD\startup file makes it always available through Word|Tools|Macro|Macros. However, the Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library still un-checks itself after each mail merge and the personalised emails are created in Outlook, whereas I want them created in Outlook Express. The un-checking is a nuisance but if I cant create these emails in Outlook Express, then all this learning will be of no value. Any solutions please? "Doug Robbins" wrote: The fact that the files were not attached points to there being a difference between the actual path\filename and the path\filename that appears in the catalog mailmerge document. Just one extra space will cause it not to work. The macro should be created in either the normal.dot template (not necessarily recommended), or in another template that you place in the Word startup folder. Any template in that location becomes an Add-in to Word and the code in it can be used in all documents. -- 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 "Hunza321" wrote in message news I am following the instructions from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm I am using Windows 98 and Word 2000. I have Outlook installed but use Outlook Express for email. I check the item Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library under Word Tools|Macro|VB Editor|Tools|References. I can create a separate Catalogue identifying the required attachment (a PDF). I can execute the mail merge, to a new document. With the new document open I can run the macro as instructed, but experience the following: 1) The correct number of personalised emails is created but none have an attachment. 2) At some point during my experiments the personalised emails stopped being created in Outlook Express and are now created in Outlook. 3) The macro appears not to be saved and has to be re-created for each merge. 4) The Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library un-checks itself after each merge. Please help me to solve these problems? |
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It is the Microsoft Outlook Object Library that is being used, therefore it
is Outlook, not Outlook Express that will send the emails. There is no Outlook Express Object Library that can be used. I have the macro as an add-in and the Outlook Object Library remains checked at all times. -- 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 "Hunza321" wrote in message ... Thanks for your guidance Doug. I did type an incorrect path\filename and placing the macro as .DOT in the WORD\startup file makes it always available through Word|Tools|Macro|Macros. However, the Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library still un-checks itself after each mail merge and the personalised emails are created in Outlook, whereas I want them created in Outlook Express. The un-checking is a nuisance but if I can't create these emails in Outlook Express, then all this learning will be of no value. Any solutions please? "Doug Robbins" wrote: The fact that the files were not attached points to there being a difference between the actual path\filename and the path\filename that appears in the catalog mailmerge document. Just one extra space will cause it not to work. The macro should be created in either the normal.dot template (not necessarily recommended), or in another template that you place in the Word startup folder. Any template in that location becomes an Add-in to Word and the code in it can be used in all documents. -- 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 "Hunza321" wrote in message news I am following the instructions from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm I am using Windows 98 and Word 2000. I have Outlook installed but use Outlook Express for email. I check the item Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library under Word Tools|Macro|VB Editor|Tools|References. I can create a separate Catalogue identifying the required attachment (a PDF). I can execute the mail merge, to a new document. With the new document open I can run the macro as instructed, but experience the following: 1) The correct number of personalised emails is created but none have an attachment. 2) At some point during my experiments the personalised emails stopped being created in Outlook Express and are now created in Outlook. 3) The macro appears not to be saved and has to be re-created for each merge. 4) The Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library un-checks itself after each merge. Please help me to solve these problems? |
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