Custom letters 1-at-a-time

[Nia]

In Outlook 2000, our office would like to select 1 contact
and have info feed into a custom letter format (with our
margins, indents, etc.)

Easiest "built in" method seems to be under tools\mail
merge\(radio button) Only Selected Contacts and Existing
Document (browse for path). DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A MACRO
FOR THESE STEPS? or A WAY TO ACHIEVE THIS CUSTOM FORMAT
LETTER FOR 1 CONTACT AT THE "PUSH OF A BUTTON"?

Have found some solutions on the web dating from 1997 but
suspect changes in Outlook since then cause need to
troubleshoot code. We need something that's ready to go.

Thank you,
Nia

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

If you don't like mail merge, the basic coded technique is unchanged since Office 97: Create a document template .dot file in Word and open it and populate it from Outlook data in code. See http://www.slipstick.com/dev/customprint.htm. You might also find the information at http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.htm useful.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers