Best Way ?

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Scott Viney

G'day All,

Looking for some information. With Outlook you can have all your
contacts...address, email address, yada, yada, yada. Can I use this
information in to say mail merge with Word and email a letter to the ppl
with email addresses? Or is this better done with a Access?

The reason I ask is that we want to deliver an email to all our clients with
the latest promotions. And want it to be a bit more automated?

Any information or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Have a good one,

Scott V
 
You can use either Access or Outlook as the data source for a mail merge in
Word. It all depends on what data you want to keep where.
 
Why don't you make a Distribution List, and send your email to everyone in
that list in Outlook? You can save the list and send future emails to that
same list. Just curious? I think that's the Best Way.
 
I disagree strongly. Keeping a DL updated with the myriad of address changes
is more difficult than maintaining a database or Contacts folder. You also
run the risk of the user putting it in the To box, and thus breaching
privacy, or of the recipient's spam filter blocking the message if you send
Bcc.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks Sue,

I was imagining the same. Do you have any suggestions for what are the fors
and againsts. It seems that Outlook has everything for keeping contacts in
one place. Whereas I will have to create a database to keep this
information.

In reality I would like to use the best functions of each of the microsoft
products and use them together. LOL! Maybe Iam taking too big of a bite of
the pie at the moment. Small steps.

Cheers,
Scott
 
One other thing. I only want to maintain one list of contacts and their
details. The less duplication the better.

Maybe its better to build things in Access then use the functionality of
Outlook to email ppl. That way I can build on Access as needed.

Thanks again for any suggestions
Scott V
 
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