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Email Merge on Word 2002?
I'd like to use the merge function on my Word 2002 to send emails to a list.
I've been using Eudora for my emails and would like to continue to do so, but I'd be pleased to use Outlook if I need to. The problem is, I don't even seem to have the option on Word to do email merge, because the "merge to email" button is greyed out, and similarly, when I try to select the type of document to merge, "email" is not one of the choices. So my question is, how do I activate the email merge function on Microsoft Word 2002? |
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First verify that Eudora is set up as the default e-mail package e.g. in IE
or in Control Panel|Internet Options . Then try again. If that does not work, Word is probably not finding some lines you need in WIN.INI. I would open the WIN.INI file in your Windows directory (probably c:\Windows or c:\Winnt) using e.g. Notepad. Check for the following lines (which should be present in /most/ Windows installations but which may need to be different in some cases, so proceed with caution). If they aren't there, make a backup copy of your WIN.INI and try copying/pasting them in: [Mail] MAPI=1 CMC=1 CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll MAPIX=1 MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1 OLEMessaging=1 As far as I can tell from experiments here a couple of years ago, Word 2002 should work fine with Eudora 5.2, and on versions of Windows with a recent version of the MAPI dlls (e.g. Windows 2000 or later, or IE5 or later) it probably doesn't make any difference whether you use Eudora's version of MAPI or not. However, things may be different on your configuration. Also, as far as I can tell, no e-mail client except the full Outlook 2002 or later lets you send HTML format mail. Peter Jamieson "Andrewwww" wrote in message ... I'd like to use the merge function on my Word 2002 to send emails to a list. I've been using Eudora for my emails and would like to continue to do so, but I'd be pleased to use Outlook if I need to. The problem is, I don't even seem to have the option on Word to do email merge, because the "merge to email" button is greyed out, and similarly, when I try to select the type of document to merge, "email" is not one of the choices. So my question is, how do I activate the email merge function on Microsoft Word 2002? |
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First verify that Eudora is set up as the default e-mail package e.g. in IE
or in Control Panel|Internet Options . Then try again. If that does not work, Word is probably not finding some lines you need in WIN.INI. I would open the WIN.INI file in your Windows directory (probably c:\Windows or c:\Winnt) using e.g. Notepad. Check for the following lines (which should be present in /most/ Windows installations but which may need to be different in some cases, so proceed with caution). If they aren't there, make a backup copy of your WIN.INI and try copying/pasting them in: [Mail] MAPI=1 CMC=1 CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll MAPIX=1 MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1 OLEMessaging=1 As far as I can tell from experiments here a couple of years ago, Word 2002 should work fine with Eudora 5.2, and on versions of Windows with a recent version of the MAPI dlls (e.g. Windows 2000 or later, or IE5 or later) it probably doesn't make any difference whether you use Eudora's version of MAPI or not. However, things may be different on your configuration. Also, as far as I can tell, no e-mail client except the full Outlook 2002 or later lets you send HTML format mail. Peter Jamieson "Andrewwww" wrote in message ... I'd like to use the merge function on my Word 2002 to send emails to a list. I've been using Eudora for my emails and would like to continue to do so, but I'd be pleased to use Outlook if I need to. The problem is, I don't even seem to have the option on Word to do email merge, because the "merge to email" button is greyed out, and similarly, when I try to select the type of document to merge, "email" is not one of the choices. So my question is, how do I activate the email merge function on Microsoft Word 2002? |
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