Automatically creating a Dear *sender's name*, in Outlook

Question

I would like to automate the process of creating the first part of an email, namely "Dear sender's name" in Outlook. I believe it is possible as the name can be derived from the name field of the person who has sent the email (i.e. name field [ email field ] which appears at the top of the email) . How do I go about accomplishing this?

Answer 1

This is a Mail Merge feature and the Microsoft Outlook blog runs through how to set that up

The basic steps to creating a mail merged e-mail from Outlook are:

1. Select your contacts in Outlook
2. Select to send an e-mail in the Mail Merge dialog and choose your subject
3. Compose your e-mail in Word – inserting fields where appropriate
4. Preview and Send

Read about the details on the blog article linked above.