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Suppressing Mail Merge Wizard and using menus instead
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I sincerely hope Susanna Barnhill sees this as I understand she has previously sent info to this forum which I appear to have missed. At the moment, Mailmerge is really getting to me having to go through that long-winded wizard process and I long to convert back to the old days of using menus. Can anyone help. Also, in the old days pre wizard, you could create your database for a particular letter which could subsequently be opened and was, in fact, a table in Word. Is this still possible as the wizard seems to want to write everything to Access!! However, I'm aware you can select a spreadsheet instead. However, in the old days, a very helpful feature of the merge menus was the "merge options" which seem to have disappeared. Now, instead of selecting, for example, everyone with a postal town of Bristol you have to scan the entire list checking every line where you want the information included in the merge. This takes forever. How do I get the old merge options back please? Any help will be very gratefully received. Thank you. |
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Suppressing Mail Merge Wizard and using menus instead
Hi Margaret
came across this amazing tip the other day (not sure where but i'm eternally greatful!) .. choose view / toolbars / customize choose the commands tab under categories choose all commands on the right hand side find Mail Merge Helper drag to toolbar close customize dialog click on mail merge helper and yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope this helps Cheers JulieD "Margaret Hargreaves" wrote in message ... Hi I sincerely hope Susanna Barnhill sees this as I understand she has previously sent info to this forum which I appear to have missed. At the moment, Mailmerge is really getting to me having to go through that long-winded wizard process and I long to convert back to the old days of using menus. Can anyone help. Also, in the old days pre wizard, you could create your database for a particular letter which could subsequently be opened and was, in fact, a table in Word. Is this still possible as the wizard seems to want to write everything to Access!! However, I'm aware you can select a spreadsheet instead. However, in the old days, a very helpful feature of the merge menus was the "merge options" which seem to have disappeared. Now, instead of selecting, for example, everyone with a postal town of Bristol you have to scan the entire list checking every line where you want the information included in the merge. This takes forever. How do I get the old merge options back please? Any help will be very gratefully received. Thank you. |
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Suppressing Mail Merge Wizard and using menus instead
Hi Margaret
me again in addition to my other response you can also set filter options in step 5 of the mail merge wizard ... click on Edit Recipient List click on the DROP DOWN arrow on the field that you want to filter on choose the item that you want OR click on the Advanced tab Cheers JulieD "Margaret Hargreaves" wrote in message ... Hi I sincerely hope Susanna Barnhill sees this as I understand she has previously sent info to this forum which I appear to have missed. At the moment, Mailmerge is really getting to me having to go through that long-winded wizard process and I long to convert back to the old days of using menus. Can anyone help. Also, in the old days pre wizard, you could create your database for a particular letter which could subsequently be opened and was, in fact, a table in Word. Is this still possible as the wizard seems to want to write everything to Access!! However, I'm aware you can select a spreadsheet instead. However, in the old days, a very helpful feature of the merge menus was the "merge options" which seem to have disappeared. Now, instead of selecting, for example, everyone with a postal town of Bristol you have to scan the entire list checking every line where you want the information included in the merge. This takes forever. How do I get the old merge options back please? Any help will be very gratefully received. Thank you. |
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Suppressing Mail Merge Wizard and using menus instead
Hi Margaret,
I sincerely hope Susanna Barnhill sees this as I understand she has previously sent info to this forum which I appear to have missed. Even when she's around, Suzanne rarely checks this newsgroup. Mail merge isn't her specialty :-) At the moment, Mailmerge is really getting to me having to go through that long-winded wizard process and I long to convert back to the old days of using menus. Can anyone help. You can get back the old interface. The information is in a table in the Word 2002 section of my website's mail merge FAQ. you might also try using the toolbar (my preference). Also, in the old days pre wizard, you could create your database for a particular letter which could subsequently be opened and was, in fact, a table in Word. Is this still possible as the wizard seems to want to write everything to Access!! However, I'm aware you can select a spreadsheet instead. You can still use a table... However, in the old days, a very helpful feature of the merge menus was the "merge options" which seem to have disappeared. Now, instead of selecting, for example, everyone with a postal town of Bristol you have to scan the entire list checking every line where you want the information included in the merge. This takes forever. How do I get the old merge options back please? The Recipients dialog box, you mean. You can select a criterion from the list at the top of a field. Or, the very last entry in that list will get you into the old Query Options. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Mailmerge - old style
Hi Julie
Many thanks. I've tried it and it's womderful. Thanks a bunch. Regards Margaret -----Original Message----- Hi Margaret me again in addition to my other response you can also set filter options in step 5 of the mail merge wizard ... click on Edit Recipient List click on the DROP DOWN arrow on the field that you want to filter on choose the item that you want OR click on the Advanced tab Cheers JulieD "Margaret Hargreaves" wrote in message ... Hi I sincerely hope Susanna Barnhill sees this as I understand she has previously sent info to this forum which I appear to have missed. At the moment, Mailmerge is really getting to me having to go through that long-winded wizard process and I long to convert back to the old days of using menus. Can anyone help. Also, in the old days pre wizard, you could create your database for a particular letter which could subsequently be opened and was, in fact, a table in Word. Is this still possible as the wizard seems to want to write everything to Access!! However, I'm aware you can select a spreadsheet instead. However, in the old days, a very helpful feature of the merge menus was the "merge options" which seem to have disappeared. Now, instead of selecting, for example, everyone with a postal town of Bristol you have to scan the entire list checking every line where you want the information included in the merge. This takes forever. How do I get the old merge options back please? Any help will be very gratefully received. Thank you. . |
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