CeliaJ,
From Word Help:
Create and distribute merged e-mail messages
You can use the Mail Merge Wizard to create a group e-mail distribution.

Note Your system must include a MAPI (MAPI: The Microsoft interface
specification that allows different messaging and workgroup applications
(including e-mail, voice mail, and fax) to work through a single client, such as
the Exchange client included with Windows 95 and Windows NT.)-compatible e-mail
program, such as Microsoft Outlook.

Outlook Express is not considered a MAPI-compatible e-mail program for Word.

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Rich/rerat

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"CeliaJ" wrote in message
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I used to be able to create a mail and merge it with a list in Excel to
create a personalised email to a number of recipients. Now with Word2003
and
OE6 it keeps prompting to set up a profile in Outlook, which I'm not keen
to
do.. Is there a way of setting OE6 as the default emailing prog for Word?