Mail Merge Hyperlinks

[Michael]

Hi Folks - I've seen posts similar to this, but with no resolution .....

I use Outlook 2003 Contacts/Word 2003 to create an email Mail Merge. I start
the merge from Outlook. In the merge document, I include the Outlook web
page field, which is an hyperlink. Once the merge completes, the "hyperlink"
is converted to text in the merge email. Is there anyway I can preserve the
hyperlink format? Thanks in advance.

Michael

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you create an actual hyperlink in the merge document? Are you merging to HTML format? What build number of Word (check Help | About)?

 

[Michael]

Sue - Word Build 11.6359.6360. No, I used the web_page field from Contacts.
Yes, merging to HTML. Note: I am able to 'hard-code' an hyperlink in the
Word Merge doc.

Michael




Did you create an actual hyperlink in the merge document? Are you merging to
HTML format? What build number of Word (check Help | About)?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Ah, now I understand. Thanks for jogging my memory about this issue (which I should have picked up from your original post -- sorry). I don't know of any way to make this work in an HTML format merge. I have played around with such things as { HYPERLINK { MERGEFIELD "Web_Page" } } but could not get it to work. Word apparently just won't combine these. (Maybe someone on a Word forum would have a workaround.)

A link in a plain text merge should work fine, but then you'll have to put up with the security prompt on each item.
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