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Mail merge from Outlook is cumbersome, any ideas?
In the 2000 version, you could gather contacts into a virtual file and query
for the names all day from that same virtual file rather quickly. Now I am on the Office Professional 2003 version with Outlook 2003 and it takes forever to download the contacts each time and search for someone else to send to. I use the templates on a group server for many proposal types with unique phrasing, I cannot access them from within Outlook to do a single letter at a time as I had done in the past. |
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Mail merge from Outlook is cumbersome, any ideas?
See the Code Methods at http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.htm
-- 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 "BNethery" wrote in message ... In the 2000 version, you could gather contacts into a virtual file and query for the names all day from that same virtual file rather quickly. Now I am on the Office Professional 2003 version with Outlook 2003 and it takes forever to download the contacts each time and search for someone else to send to. I use the templates on a group server for many proposal types with unique phrasing, I cannot access them from within Outlook to do a single letter at a time as I had done in the past. |
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Mail merge from Outlook is cumbersome, any ideas?
You actually can still use the old converter - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm though merging from Outlook is preferable http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm The first link reports an error with Word 2003 if you access the converter. It is possible to get round this, but I have forgotten what the error message is, so I can't look up the reference. For individual letters and envelopes I would use the macros at http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm to call the data from Outlook into the letter template. They don't have to be attached to macrobutton fields. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org BNethery wrote: In the 2000 version, you could gather contacts into a virtual file and query for the names all day from that same virtual file rather quickly. Now I am on the Office Professional 2003 version with Outlook 2003 and it takes forever to download the contacts each time and search for someone else to send to. I use the templates on a group server for many proposal types with unique phrasing, I cannot access them from within Outlook to do a single letter at a time as I had done in the past. |
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