Comments on: Email Merge in Word 2007

By: David

David — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:34:03 +0000

I would like to find a program like this but to which can be added attachments. This function seems to be lacking.

I used Mach Mailer 4.5 but it stopped working on my Laptop and I cannot find where to download it with a link that work. I was hoping to reinstall and get it working again.

It would be good if Office comes out with this facility.

Can anyone help?

By: Mehul

Mehul — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:34:24 +0000

I have try to use email merge functionality with outlook but every time one content is display on each email.

By: FringeFan

FringeFan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:57:28 +0000

I have an intern who appears to have done everything correct when sending an email to about 50 recipients. When the mail merge operation took place, each email started correctly. However, all the emails messages for the other 49 recipients was appended to the email. This made for a very long (and somewhat embarrassing) email being distributed to each recipient. Any idea why this happened … and more importantly … how do we make sure this does not happen again?

By: Jason Mitchell

Jason Mitchell — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:00:20 +0000

I was having the same problem myself. To fix it, I had to set Microsoft Outlook as the default e-mail client in Internet Explorer. Open Internet Explorer, click on Tools, Options, Programs tab. It was previously set to Outlook Express by default.

By: mana

mana — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:12:53 +0000

I’ve tried to use mail merge in words 2007 and windows mail, but also to no avail. I’ve been able to “export” the contacts to CSV format, reach the last stage in the mail merge, but when I select “electronic mail” to merge the two, I get 2 answers:

1. If I select Plain Text or Attachment, it says “Program is trying to access email address information stored in outlook. If this is unexpected, click deny and verify your antivirus software is up to date.” – It seems like it’s using microsoft outlook to send the email out and isn’t working!

2. If I select “Html” – it just says “unspecified error”

Any ideas how to move forward with this? I have to send out 1000 emails by tomorrow!!

By: Russ

Russ — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:32:12 +0000

I get to the final step and “Send e-Mail Messages” is grayed out. I do not have Outlook on the computer as my company uses Lotus Notes. That step does say “…sends them to your Outlook 2007 outbox (or your default email client). Is there a way to set Lotus as my default e-mail client in Word 2007?

By: ron

ron — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:30:23 +0000

I have 30 rows in an excell spread sheet.I want the first 5 rows to get emailed to john, the next five to Jane ect… mail merging to a word document is easy (next record…). How can I mimic this to email the data instead of printing a hard copy for each person.

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:52:50 +0000

Well…what a pitiful example of what should be a functioning product! my email merge in 2007 and my NEW computer with 2010 DOES NOT WORK…Have tried soooo many different things but my emails go from ‘finish and merge’ to the outbox in outlook and don’t go any further!!!
i have looked on so many websites and blog/forums and even have spoken to microsoft…i too have 100′s of emails to send and am spending way tooo much time TRYING to get a feature to work! why have a feature in a program that DOES NOT WORK!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:00:32 +0000

Just for reference since I didn’t see any solutions on here to the problem where Word 2007 just doesn’t ‘send’ the emails to Outlook..

..I found that if I ‘run as administrator’ (Windows 7) then it works. Obviously this annoying lack of privaliges means you can’t use the merge function despite the user account being administrator already….. sort it out Microsoft!!!!

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:26:50 +0000

Do you have a solution for using WLM 2011 for sending out bulk e-mails rather that Outlook, which I don’t have? Is there a way to link Word 2007 to WLM as the default mail server to use?