"Charlie" <ma********@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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| "stemc ©" <st*@sm9DELETE.co.uk> wrote in message
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| > "Bradley" <br*****@REMOVETHIScomcen.com.au> wrote in message
| > news:40********@nexus.comcen.com.au...
| > | stemc © wrote:
| > | > Hi there,
| > | >
| > | > In work, we often mail merge letters and post them to contacts. But
| > | > more and more, we've been emailing information to people instead.
So
| > | > far, I've been writing a single generic email, then copying and
| > | > pasting the email addresses into the address fields. I start the
| > | > email off with 'Dear all...'
| > | >
| > | > But is there a way to 'email merge' this directly into outlook
| > | > emails, in the same way we do for normal printed letters? This
| > | > copying and pasting is getting to be a bit tedious, especially when
| > | > I've got hundreds of contacts, and need to send emails to batches of
| > | > 30 people at once. To get all the email addresses together, I've
| > | > been doing a catalogue mail merge of the email addresses in Word,
| > | > then copying and pasting groups of email addresses into the emails.
| > | >
| > | > I would love to have all the emails 'email merged,' so they started
| > | > with 'Dear Fred...' or whatever, to give them a more personal touch,
| > | > and so I could have a single email for each person, rather than a
| > | > single email for lots of people at once.
| > | >
| > | > Thank you for any help or advice.
| > | >
| > | > Regards,
| > | >
| > | > Stephen
| > |
| > | I've a client that wants to go from a Word merge to an email merge. In
| > | Access you can send an object to email but you'd have to send the
report
| > | seperately for each person (a manual merge). I thought that perhaps
| > | there would be a way of sending the email to Word with the usual merge
| > | and somehow get Word to merge the document using the email address to
| > | send to each person... but I haven't go to that point to try it!
| > |
| > | Would be interested in some methods of doing this myself. It would be
a
| > | nice feature to add to Access!
| > | --
| > | regards,
| > |
| > | Bradley
| >
| > If you find anything out, be sure to let me know Bradley! It sounds
like it
| > would be a great feature, and it's certainly one which I could make use
of.
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Ste
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| Found a free program on
www.download.com that seems to have all the
| features you need. It's called PIMEX MailExpress. You'll need to
| export your email address and name data to a text file so that the
| program can read it but once thats set up it should be OK.
|
| It has good reviews so it may be worth a look.
Thanks for that. I did download it and try it, but it didn't quite work how
I was wanting.
However, I did find a program that I liked:
http://www.fairlogic.com/worldcast/
Thanks,
Ste
