Mail Merge - copies of the correspodence saved?

[Guest]

I am just beginning an investigation into the capabilities of Outlook wrt
mail merge. I am very excited to see how easily Outloook Contacts interact
with Word's Mail Merge capacity. Just trying to learn some more things,
like...


when you have completed a merge using Contacts...is a copy of the
document/email/merge output saved as part of the Contact's history?

Advanced question...let's say I have 100 contacts in a merge, and for each
of them, I am sending them a form letter(created through the Mail Merge) as
well an attachment that is specific to each contact. I want to attach those
custom attachments to each individual Contact's merge output...can it be
automated somehow, or would I have to manually attach each one? I know this
is a pretty open-ended question, so any thoughts on this are welcome.

Any help is most appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

is a copy of the

document/email/merge output saved as part of the Contact's history?
No.

Advanced question...let's say I have 100 contacts in a merge, and for each
of them, I am sending them a form letter(created through the Mail Merge) as
well an attachment that is specific to each contact. I want to attach those
custom attachments to each individual Contact's merge output...can it be
automated somehow, or would I have to manually attach each one?

Manually. You may want to investigate the third-party tools at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers