Emailing and Mail Merge From Outlook Using Word

[srm]

I'm using Outlook and Word 2003. I start my mail merge in Outlook
using the "Mail Merge Contacts" dialog (select contact, existing file
and merge to email).

The first question I have is there anyway for the "Message subject
line" in the "Mail Merge Contacts" dialog from within Outlook to
remember what the last subject was that I typed in? I don't use a
permanent file. It doesn't seem to remember the subject from merge to
merge.

The second question I have is I select the "Merge to E-mail" option
from the merge toolbar in Word. It does carry over the subject line I
entered into the "Mail Merge Contacts" dialog. This seems to always
default to HTML format. Is there anyway to make this defualt to
"Plain text". I do not want to send emails via HTML due to the fact I
don't always know how the email is going to appear on the receiving
end.

I can use the Mail Merger Helper which seems to only send in "Plain
text format". Is that correct?

thxs

srm

 

[Alexander Gorlach]

Hello!

Btw, look at our add-in Mail Merge Toolkit for Microsoft Office (
http://www.mapilab.com/ ) it allows to customize subject line and use
any format for outgoing email (even GIF with image map web links, it is
very useful when you merge complex document from Microsoft Publisher).