How do I code a template with the clients name?

[Guest]

I am wanting to send an email from Outlook to a group of people in a
distribution list. I would like to personalise it by having their name (and
thier Partner) in the introduction and in the body of the email.
I don't have a web site so I am using Outlook to do this work.
Is there a way of coding the email to pull out the contacts details?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Use individual contacts, not a DL, and perform a mail merge using the Tools | Mail Merge command.

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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

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip re merging
I have looked at the function and I don't have a merge functionality on the
tools box in Outlook. I have it in Word, but I am trying to send an outlook
template *.oft and code the *.oft with details (eg first Name) from the
contact list.
I want to then send the same 'personalised' the contact from Outlook as an
email.
Is this possible?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In Outlook, you will see the Tools | Mail Merge command only when you are viewing a contacts folder. Starting the merge from Outlook rather than Word will give you much more flexibility in the fields you can pick. The template, though, would need to be in Word, not an Outlook ..oft form template. In order to use an .oft file for this, you'd need to write some VBA code. I recommend that you give merge a try instead.

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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