I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the office and I
want to be able to link to contact information within Outlook so that the
info is inserted at the click of a button. Is this possible? The only other
way I can think of doing this would be to use the letter wizard within
Outlook which will do a similar task but I cant see any way of changing the
layout of the letter which has an American format of date first which I dont
want. Any help would be appreciated.

Generally speaking it's easier to start from the Outlook end of things. In
recent versions of Office you can select a contact folder (and an individual
contact in that folder) and use Outlook Tools|Mail Merge to perform a merge
to it. Once you have set up a suitable mail merge template you can re-use
it.

if that doesn't do what you need, you might be able to find some useful VBA
code at http://www.slipstick.com - also, if you search this newsgroup on
Google Groups for "jamieson outlook inspector" - the article I'm thinking of
is dated Sep 28 2003

Peter Jamieson
"Yellowhouse1976" wrote in
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I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the office and
I
want to be able to link to contact information within Outlook so that the
info is inserted at the click of a button. Is this possible? The only
other
way I can think of doing this would be to use the letter wizard within
Outlook which will do a similar task but I cant see any way of changing
the
layout of the letter which has an American format of date first which I
dont
want. Any help would be appreciated.

See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the
office and I want to be able to link to contact information within
Outlook so that the info is inserted at the click of a button. Is
this possible? The only other way I can think of doing this would be
to use the letter wizard within Outlook which will do a similar task
but I cant see any way of changing the layout of the letter which has
an American format of date first which I dont want. Any help would
be appreciated.

Graham, I have had a quick look at your sight and this seems to be more of
what I was looking for. I just hope I can incorporate the macros as I have
never used them before, wish me luck. Thanks Jude

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the
office and I want to be able to link to contact information within
Outlook so that the info is inserted at the click of a button. Is
this possible? The only other way I can think of doing this would be
to use the letter wizard within Outlook which will do a similar task
but I cant see any way of changing the layout of the letter which has
an American format of date first which I dont want. Any help would
be appreciated.

If you don't know what to do with the code see my other page
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
Graham, I have had a quick look at your sight and this seems to be
more of what I was looking for. I just hope I can incorporate the
macros as I have never used them before, wish me luck. Thanks Jude

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the
office and I want to be able to link to contact information within
Outlook so that the info is inserted at the click of a button. Is
this possible? The only other way I can think of doing this would
be to use the letter wizard within Outlook which will do a similar
task but I cant see any way of changing the layout of the letter
which has an American format of date first which I dont want. Any
help would be appreciated.

Thanks so much,

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If you don't know what to do with the code see my other page
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
Graham, I have had a quick look at your sight and this seems to be
more of what I was looking for. I just hope I can incorporate the
macros as I have never used them before, wish me luck. Thanks Jude

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See the examples at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Yellowhouse1976 wrote:
I am trying to set up template letters for various things in the
office and I want to be able to link to contact information within
Outlook so that the info is inserted at the click of a button. Is
this possible? The only other way I can think of doing this would
be to use the letter wizard within Outlook which will do a similar
task but I cant see any way of changing the layout of the letter
which has an American format of date first which I dont want. Any
help would be appreciated.