I assume that you are using the macro prepared by fellow MVP Doug Robbins at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm. I am not sure
whether Doug reads this forum, so you would be better posting in the Word
mailmerge forum, to which I have cross posted this reply (See
http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm for easier access) but a good start would
be to see http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm to eliminate
checking all those unrequired contacts.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



wrote:
Greetings. I have followed the white papers from word.mvps.org, but
it isn't working, so I have some questions regarding the white paper
and using a mail merge with an attachment. I am doing this procedure
on a laptop with Windows XP Pro and both Office XP and Office 2003
installed, but they are both separate of each other and I am using the
Office 2003 version of Outlook and Word. I just want to send a mass
e-mail that has an attachment and I think the attachment portion of
this is what's causing the problem. The attachment is a PDF file with
some graphics and formatting features that would not work in an
e-mail, but it is still under 100kb in size.

To begin with, I have 1100 contacts in my Contacts folder in Outlook
2003. I only want to send it to two people, as a test, so that's how
I did it this time. One person was numbered at #428 and the other was
#979. I followed the directions on making the Directory file and when
that stuff was all done it properly displayed the two recipients. The
problem occurs when it brings up that macro warning window, in which I
am to reply Yes, No, or Cancel. I do have ExpressClick running, and
each time the window appears, it is only displayed for 6 seconds, then
it disappears, then reappears for another 6 seconds, and so on, and so
forth. I started this process at 3:30pm yesterday and it was still
doing it at 9am this morning; I promptly ended it. I figured that it
should have stopped doing it after the two people were selected
(assuming each macro warning window has a 1:1 ratio with the contacts
I selected), so after 12 seconds, but even if it went through all 1100
contacts, it still should have finished in under 2 hours. Granted, if
each contact/recipient gets that macro warning window multiple times,
then that obviously would make the process take significantly longer.
If there could be some clarification on how many times that window
shows up per person, that would be helpful on my end.

Did I do something wrong/stray from the instructions? Obviously not
having you watch over my shoulder makes it hard to answer that
question, but where should I be looking for the problem? Is it with
the attachment? Is it with my Directory file? Does anyone recommend
a third-party provider that will do what I need? Is there a better
piece of code out there that I should be using?. Thank you for
helping me out. Have a wonderful day!