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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing
MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text
of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine |
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Email Attachment in Word 2003 Mail Merge
Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my
stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . |
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Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be
choosing Letter. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . |
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That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't
have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . |
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Er...actually I wrote too soon...I hope this is the right way to post a
message to keep the thread going. Outlook now appears to be interfering with the mail merge email addresses from the source data / directoryfile and superimposing email addresses on the contacts for which it has different emails. I do have data duplication between my Outlook and my source data, and some of the details (home vs work emails etc) are different. Can I turn this interference off and just have Outlook accept the addresses I feed in, regard;ess of what it 'thinks'? -- Grapevine "Grapevine" wrote: That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . |
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I have not come across that problem before. You might ask in an Outlook
newsgroup, or try (though you might not want to do it) erasing the memorized list by following the instructions at: http://www.daycomsolutions.com/Suppo...InOutlook.html -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Er...actually I wrote too soon...I hope this is the right way to post a message to keep the thread going. Outlook now appears to be interfering with the mail merge email addresses from the source data / directoryfile and superimposing email addresses on the contacts for which it has different emails. I do have data duplication between my Outlook and my source data, and some of the details (home vs work emails etc) are different. Can I turn this interference off and just have Outlook accept the addresses I feed in, regard;ess of what it 'thinks'? -- Grapevine "Grapevine" wrote: That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . |
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Thanks Doug, will try these. Happy Christmas.
-- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: I have not come across that problem before. You might ask in an Outlook newsgroup, or try (though you might not want to do it) erasing the memorized list by following the instructions at: http://www.daycomsolutions.com/Suppo...InOutlook.html -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Er...actually I wrote too soon...I hope this is the right way to post a message to keep the thread going. Outlook now appears to be interfering with the mail merge email addresses from the source data / directoryfile and superimposing email addresses on the contacts for which it has different emails. I do have data duplication between my Outlook and my source data, and some of the details (home vs work emails etc) are different. Can I turn this interference off and just have Outlook accept the addresses I feed in, regard;ess of what it 'thinks'? -- Grapevine "Grapevine" wrote: That's great Doug, thanks a lot, thought I'd tried that already but can't have done it right. Works perfectly. Thanks - and apologies again! -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Where you are choosing Email as the type of main document, you should be choosing Letter. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Really appreciate the very swift reply....Please bear with my stupidity. When I open a fresh word doc as a test for the text of the email I go as if to do a "normal" email merge - ie through Tools, Letters&Mailings, Mail Merge etc -. Att he doc type I choose Email? And then continue as normal? If I do this I can see that no new doc is actually generated at all by the last stage (6). If I choose directory I can generate a new document on wihch to wotrk, but I still have the same message on running the macro. Apologies. It is almost certainly a basic misundertanding of merging.... -- Grapevine "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: You have not executed the merge of the document that is to become the text of the email message to a new document before running the macro, which must be run when the document created by executing that merge is the active document. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Grapevine" wrote in message ... Hi. I have been trying to implement MVP Doug Robbins' technique for allowing MS outlook (2003) to add attachments to email merges (www://word.mvps.org/FAQs?MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm). I have - I think - followed every step. But no matter how many permutations I have tried I have still not succeeded in sending a single email - let alone one with an attachment (always says '0 messages sent' at the end of the process). Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? Presumambly there are no errors in the macro or in the preparation steps as it wd have given me a different error message and not allowed me to go all the way through the process only to tell me I had sent no messages? -- Grapevine . . . |
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