Hello Nick,
Our MVP Sue kindly provided information of this issue. If you have further
concerns, feel free to post back:
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| Send On Behalf Of and mail merge are not compatible. To do what you want
| using only Office applications, the marketing director will need to start
| Outlook with a mail profile that connects directly with the boss'
mailbox.
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| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
| Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
| Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
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http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
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| "NickW" wrote:
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| > Our marketing director is sending out an email using a mail merge via
Word
| > 2007. We know how to send an email on behalf of the boss via delegate
access,
| > and we thought we would just paste the email list into the "BCC" field
and
| > send out from Outlook in order for the email to appear to be sent From
| > (Marketing Director) On Behalf of (Boss). However, they also want to
use
| > merge fields to customize the email so that it says, "Dear [Recipient
name]",
| > etc. In short we want to:
| >
| > Mail Merge > Email > Recipient List > Using Custom Merge Fields > Send
on
| > Behalf Of
| >
| > Is this possible? If so, how? Let me know if clarification is needed.
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