Mail Merge

[Matthew DeAngelis]

Hi,

I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the wizard to set
up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of my users are
not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful lot of clicks
involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the data to the
merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit Merge With
Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button automate this
feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail, since the data is
merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell). Barring that,
however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to the
appropriate document would be helpful as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

[chas]

Hi,

take a look at the following Microsoft articles.

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209882[/url]

(ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Create a Word 2000
Merge Document)

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209976[/url]

(ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Run Word 2000 Mail
Merge from Access)

hth

chas

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the

wizard to set

>up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of

my users are

>not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful

lot of clicks

>involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the

data to the

>merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit

Merge With

>Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button

automate this

>feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail,

since the data is

>merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell).

Barring that,

>however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to

the

>appropriate document would be helpful as well.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>.
>

[Matthew DeAngelis]

chas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> take a look at the following Microsoft articles.
>
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209882[/url]
>
> (ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Create a Word 2000
> Merge Document)
>
> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209976[/url]
>
> (ACC2000: How to Use Automation to Run Word 2000 Mail
> Merge from Access)
>
> hth
>
> chas
>
>
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am adding an e-mail merge to my database. I used the

> wizard to set

> >up the e-mail and link it to the data. However, some of

> my users are

> >not particularly savvy, and there seems to be an awful

> lot of clicks

> >involved if one wants to go from the form that shows the

> data to the

> >merge (open the query, click the Office Links button, hit

> Merge With

> >Word, etc.) Is there a way to make a command button

> automate this

> >feature? I would like it simply to send the e-mail,

> since the data is

> >merged and saved with the file (as near as I can tell).

> Barring that,

> >however, a command button that opens the Merge wizard to

> the

> >appropriate document would be helpful as well.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Matt
> >.
> >

Thanks, that does the trick very well.

Regards,
Matt

[Michelle_Alexander@adobeforums.com]

Is it possible to do a mail merge in InDesign similiar to the one you can do in MS Word. I would really like to lay out my marketing pieces in InDesign, but they need to be personally addressed. Am I asking too much?

[Bob_Levine]

If you have InDesign CS then you can do this using the Pagemaker plugins.

Bob