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Clive Long · 19th-October-2005, 01:43 PM

Hi all,

I have known about mail merge for yonks but never used it

Situation. A friend (that's 3 now) has her contacts in Outlook. We have successfully used the MS-Word Mail merge wizard to create a document template with fields to receive data from a filtered outlook contact list. The result can only be output to a printer. We want to produce separate word documents and send as an email attachments. I have used PDF995 as a cheap Adobe Acrobat to generate file output. However, the printer driver produces a single PDF file whereas I really want a separate file for each resulting document. Can I get the mail merge wizard to produce separate files?

Further, are there any third party outlook add-ins that allow one to produce multiple outlook messages directly rather than using ms-word as the target for the mail merge? I am guessing that mail merge is a function of word so this approach is not viable?

Clive

19th-October-2005, 01:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
Clive Long Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London-innit Posts: 1,465 Status: No Status Rep Power: 3	MS Office / Word / Outlook mail merge Hi all, I have known about mail merge for yonks but never used it Situation. A friend (that's 3 now) has her contacts in Outlook. We have successfully used the MS-Word Mail merge wizard to create a document template with fields to receive data from a filtered outlook contact list. The result can only be output to a printer. We want to produce separate word documents and send as an email attachments. I have used PDF995 as a cheap Adobe Acrobat to generate file output. However, the printer driver produces a single PDF file whereas I really want a separate file for each resulting document. Can I get the mail merge wizard to produce separate files? Further, are there any third party outlook add-ins that allow one to produce multiple outlook messages directly rather than using ms-word as the target for the mail merge? I am guessing that mail merge is a function of word so this approach is not viable? Clive