Mail merge to email with an attachment

[Alison Gaus]

When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document and send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an attachment. I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just hangs - I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but not with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[DL]

You might want to post to a Word newsgroup, sounds like a word problem
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document and send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an attachment. I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just hangs - I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but not with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

No - its definately an outlook thing as i am using outlook to start the meerge and i can merge fine to html or text just not as an attachment, word is only the document - ioutlook is the client - It worked fine in xp - trying to find an 3rd party addin that may do it.

Alison
You might want to post to a Word newsgroup, sounds like a word problem
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document and send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an attachment. I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just hangs - I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but not with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

Thank you!

The whole office suite

But I had no third party last time and it worked very well with office XP -
have they just disabled in 2003?

All the download links do not seem to work for the 3rd party applications -
I shall persevere though!!

Thanks

 

[Alison Gaus]

I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at this
all day and it is very frustrating why did it work with XP and not with
2003 - it's illogical, IMHO!

 

[Alison Gaus]

I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at this
all day and it is very frustrating why did it work with XP and not with
2003 - it's illogical, IMHO!

Any more suggestions????? PLEASE!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at this
all day and it is very frustrating why did it work with XP and not with
2003 - it's illogical, IMHO!

Any more suggestions????? PLEASE!!

Alison

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML, of course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a message with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get Office to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

 

[Alison Gaus]

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work - sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML, of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window. That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook button on the task bar.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work - sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML, of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings - could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings - could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

Have delved further and discovered that it will not send as attachment even
if you merge to document and then use 'send to recipient as an attachment'.
I had to 'save as' and then 'send to recipient as an attachment'.

There must be something stopping it - maybe the merge fields or something
that are only there at the merge instance and are not after saving.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Alison


I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but
in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on
this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings -
could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus
secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a
message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get
Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to
each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

Having now finally installed prowirte and got it configured correctly - i
again tried a merge, it got as far as the merge but could not put the email
to the outbox AGAIN!! - is this a mapi issue - i do not understand mapi at
all - should i go for an unistall and reinstall of office?

Alison


I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but
in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on
this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings -
could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus
secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a
message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get
Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to
each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

I have finally worked out what is causing the problem!

Inside the main document is a text box with a merge field in it - when i
remove the box it works fine! - Is this a setting i can adjust as i know i
have merged with a text box present before - if not themn i will have to
work around the text box.

Alison
I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but
in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on
this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings -
could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus
secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a
message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get
Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to
each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That definitely sounds like a contributing factor. IIRC, form fields generally don't work on email messages. Putting that merge field in the text without a text box field should work, though.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I have finally worked out what is causing the problem!

Inside the main document is a text box with a merge field in it - when i
remove the box it works fine! - Is this a setting i can adjust as i know i
have merged with a text box present before - if not themn i will have to
work around the text box.

Alison
I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but
in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on
this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings -
could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus
secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a
message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get
Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to
each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison

 

[Alison Gaus]

converted text box to a frame - all working!! goodness what a palava!!!!

Thank you so much for your help.

Alison
That definitely sounds like a contributing factor. IIRC, form fields
generally don't work on email messages. Putting that merge field in the text
without a text box field should work, though.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I have finally worked out what is causing the problem!

Inside the main document is a text box with a merge field in it - when i
remove the box it works fine! - Is this a setting i can adjust as i know i
have merged with a text box present before - if not themn i will have to
work around the text box.

Alison
I know of no reason why it wouldn't work. There are no settings involved.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

No it definitely isn't, word just stops working, you can minimise it but
in
task manager - it says not responding and its cpu usage stays at around
50% - doesn't move at all like it would do if it was processing!

Could there be anything else stopping it work everything is the same on
this
pc except this is a dell with, I presume, its own security settings -
could
that be the problem and if yes how do I
a find out
b disable it


I suspect that the security prompt is there, but behind the Word window.
That would certainly make Word appear to hang. Try clicking on the
Outlook
button on the task bar.

Thats how i used to do it before! It allows you to put a subject line
in,
but even if i am only trying to merge one contact and choose attachment,
word hangs before it merges. It used to merge and then the virus
secirity
msg would pop up and i would 'allow' it. Juts for your information only
word hangs outlook remains fine -

The funny thing is i used to complain about the length it took to
perform
one of my previuous merges coz i had such a slow PC - now i got a much
faster super dooper one with the upgrade to 20003 and it doesn't work -
sods
law!!

As i posted earlier I have tried all of the 3rd party apps that
slipstick
recommended - and some
more to boot - some of the links were broken and none of them worked - I
have been testing with just one contact, a 3 page document with maybe 10
merge fields, and the only thing that came close to working was mapi
toolkit - but that didn't complete the sending process - I have been at
this
all day and it is very frustrating


Alison

Actually, they do. The Merge to E-mail dialog in Word 2003 (and previous
versions) gives 3 options -- Attachment, Plain Text, and HTML. Only
HTML,
of
course, avoids security prompts.

And the attachment format is available only as an alternative to a
message
with merge text. You can either have a message with merge text or a
blank
message with an attachment that contains merge text. You cannot get
Office
to do a message with merge text & an attachment with merge text.

Well documented.
Merges to electronic mail have never supported attachements.
Did you upgrade only Outlook or your entire Office suite.
Look for a third party alternative:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm#massmail


--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
When I had office xp - I was able to very easily email a merged
document
and
send it automatuically to the relevant contacts in my list as an
attachment.
I am using custom forms and fields but it worked beautifully!

After and upgrade to 2003 I find I can no longer do this - word just
hangs -
I researched a bit and found business manager could do this - yes - but
not
with my custom forms and fields!!

Please help or I will have to merge and then send separate emails to
each
contact - what a pain!!!!

Alison