I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all into the
bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want them to see their
name (and only their name) in the To field. I know this can be done, because
I get lots of them but can't figure out how to do this.

Thanks in advance for any insight to this issue.
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CLG

"Legal Learning" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:EA7F33B9-6034-4664-9326-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all into
> the
> bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want them to see
> their
> name (and only their name) in the To field. I know this can be done,
> because
> I get lots of them but can't figure out how to do this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight to this issue.
> --
> CLG

If you want the recipient's name in the To field then you need to do a Mail
Merge, not a BCC email.

> I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all
> into the bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want
> them to see their name (and only their name) in the To field. I know
> this can be done, because I get lots of them but can't figure out how
> to do this.

Search help for 'mail merge'.

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f.h.
Microsoft Outlook MVP

I am going to try that as I know there is another way to do this other than
mail merge. I remember someone telling me how to do this! I am old too, but
my memory is not great so you have one up on me
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CLG


"PaulD" wrote:

> Legal Learning <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all into the
> >bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want them to see their
> >name (and only their name) in the To field. I know this can be done, because
> >I get lots of them but can't figure out how to do this.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any insight to this issue.
>
> I seem to recall once reading that if you put your own email address
> into the To: field, you will get that result.
>
> I know... that sounds goofy. I'm old, but my memory is good.
>

Then it wasn't a built-in method in Outlook. There are various mass mail
add-ins for Outlook which can do this for you.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/tag/mass-mail

If you need help with the mail merge steps see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/mailmerge.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"Legal Learning" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C78E3BF5-3B12-41A8-AC29-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am going to try that as I know there is another way to do this other
> than
> mail merge. I remember someone telling me how to do this! I am old too,
> but
> my memory is not great so you have one up on me
> --
> CLG
>
>
> "PaulD" wrote:
>
>> Legal Learning <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all into
>> >the
>> >bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want them to see
>> >their
>> >name (and only their name) in the To field. I know this can be done,
>> >because
>> >I get lots of them but can't figure out how to do this.
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance for any insight to this issue.
>>
>> I seem to recall once reading that if you put your own email address
>> into the To: field, you will get that result.
>>
>> I know... that sounds goofy. I'm old, but my memory is good.
>>

"Legal Learning" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:EA7F33B9-6034-4664-9326-(E-Mail Removed)...

>I want to send an email to many recipients. I want to put them all into the
> bcc field. When the recipient receives this email, I want them to see their
> name (and only their name) in the To field.

These two requirements are mutually exclusive in Outlook. If you want their
name to be in the To field, you must put it in the To field. If you want to
use Bcc, no one will see anything in the To field, unless you put some fixed
entry there. As Gordon points out, you'll need to use Mail Merge.

> I know this can be done, because
> I get lots of them but can't figure out how to do this.

If you see your name in the To address on messages you received, then you are
wrong that they used the Bcc field.. Give evidence on how you "know" it can
be done. It's simply not how the Bcc field works.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]