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How to set mergefield to show long date format?
How can I make Word 2012 display German date format in mail merge?
{ DATE \a "dd.MM.yy" \ * MERGEFIELD } returns 15.02.2012 for today, 15. Februar 2013 however is what I want.
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retain formatting from source document in mail-merge
I have set up a mail-marge in Word 2003. The source is a document where each field is a formatted text as the following one:
I have different pieces of text to insert.
However, when I insert such a ...
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Mail-Merge on Steroids: Can Word 2003 do this?
I have a huge report to put together, made up of over 1,000 smaller, nearly-identical reports.
Each report includes:
General 1:1 information (basic mail-merge stuff)
Lots of text, some of which may ...
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What's the difference between mergefields, field codes, placeholders and content controls in Word DOCX files?
I'm struggling to work out the differences between mergefields, field codes, placeholders and content controls in Word DOCX files.
As part of a server-based system to generate 'mail merge' documents ...
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Put variables into Microsoft Word
Example I have a letter. I have to address it to 10 people. Each of the 10 people will have a unique info which I'll need to input in.
So it's like Dear X, Check out Y!
I'll like to pull the info ...
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Switch Text Paragraphs in OpenOfficeOrg Writer mailmerge
I am using mailmerge to write the same letter with minor differenes to many peolpe. I experienced that switching text paragraphs depending on database values was not easy for me. I ended up putting ...
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Display text only in a merge master document (not in the resulting merged document)
I'd like to put some instructional text in a Word 2007 merge master document, but upon merging, not have the text present (or at least, not visible).
The text won't print, because it is hidden, but ...
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Word 2011 Envelope Mail Merge button is greyed out. Why
Steps to reproduce:
Launch Word
Create a New Document
Display the "Mail Merge Manager" from the Tools menu
Under "Select Document Type", click "Create New", select "Envelopes..."
Stare in disbelief ...
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Custom Sender and Reply-to in MS Office email mail merge
I'm trying to set up a mail merge that will be sent on behalf of another account. With a reply-to address set to be a completely different account in an exchange environment.
Everything I've read ...
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Adjusting the column height of a Word 2007 Mail Merge on every page?
I've been doing mail merges lately and we use labels that aren't listed in the default MS Word settings:
I tried measuring them out and here is what I got:
Despite measuring them they don't seem ...
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When doing an e-mail merge in Office 2010, Outlook forces me to approve EVERY email sent
When doing an email merge from Excel data, via a Word template, into Outlook (all Office 2010), I get the dialog displayed above. For every single email, I have to wait 5 seconds, then click the ...
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Word mail merge - Know thy source?
I have a very large number of documents that I need to change where they source the merge data from. I would prefer to change them as and when required.
The issue is knowing which I have changed and ...
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Recommendations of mail merge freeware?
At work (Exchange server) our team often needs to send emails to 500+ partners. It's currently a very dull job, so I've tried the merge features in Office 2007. However, it can't:
Include a merge ...
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Word mergefield wildcard not correctly matching
Below is my mergefield code:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD Subs_State } = "GA" "blah blah" "{ IF { MERGEFIELD CEOrgStates } = "GA" "blah blah" ""} "}
I'm pulling records from a MS Access db. My goal is to check ...
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Outlook 2010 mail merge group
I'm trying to send a personalized email message to a contact group, but I get this error message:
"contact groups cannot be selected.
you must select a contact group."
If I select individual ...
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Excel/Word on MAC - includepicture containing url
I have the following:
A excel spreadsheet with names and url's to a QR code, each in a column of the spreadsheet. The url returns a jpeg picture of the QR code.
A word doc where these names and ...
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OSX MAIL APP: how can i merge several 'archived' MAIL folders into one single new (filesystem) folder
over the last 5 years i have accumlated several partial MAIL folders scaterred across several different volumes (representing 10GB++ of mail that i really dont want to have to download all over ...
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InDesign: Using DataMerge (aka Mail Merge) to insert text based on boolean in Datasource (.csv)
I am preparing some wedding invites, using Adobe InDesign (CS 5.5).
I have a .csv with all the a names.
This is used with Data Merge to insert all the names.
Very simple.
Now more complex
For most ...
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Mail merge Vista Word 2007 with Windows Live Mail
When I do a mail merge to send email from Word 2007 with Windows Live Mail installed, it doesn't seem to send the messages. Are there known problems with Windows Live Mail for mail merge? Is there a ...
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Word 2003 is ignoring mail merge delimiters
I have a flat file using the semi-colon as a delimiter. This is merged with a historic Word template that has been in use for years at our office. However, recently the template has started ignoring ...
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How to leave a blank space on IF_THEN_ELSE condition in MS Word Merge
I am running an mail merge program, where I need to merge certain fields. I have done these in the past. Just to add on these, I have to print certain text based on the value of the field in MS Excel. ...
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Office 2010: Mail merge doesn't send e-mail (Worked with Office 2007)
I have a system that currently uses a Microsoft Word template, using an Excel file as a datasource, to run a mail merge that sends an e-mail through Outlook. Using 2007, this worked without issue.
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How can I find my mail merged InDesign document?
I created a mail merge using InDesign, and it looked like it went through all of the records but (1) I can't find the option to export to pdf and (2) I can't find the merged file anywhere on my system ...
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Prevent empty labels in MS Word 2010 Mail Merge
I have a mail merge with labels.
There are 4 rows and 5 columns of labels.
When a source contains only 2 elements, the Word still creates 4 x 5 labels to fill the page. This way, 18 labels are empty. ...
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Mail merge: How to create without a header?
In Microsoft Office 2010 I am trying a Mail Merge using Excel and Word. In Excel, I have:
4 lines of data
No header row
Data contains names/addresses/etc
In Word (after opening the Word file) I ...
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How do I get image and text to resize in email depending on where it is viewed?
I am sending a mail merge invitation out that has a header and a footer image and then a body of text. How can I make it so that the text does not extend past the width of the images AND so that the ...
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Colour table cells in Microsoft Word after mail merge
I have an Excel spreadsheet of student data. For each of 30 topics, students are traffic lighted R, A or G (for red, amber, green) in the spreadsheet. I am mail merging individual result print-outs in ...
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How can I send a mail merge from Thunderbird using my whole address book?
My bad old German email address has been hacked and is sending spam to everyone I know. I want to send a change of address to everyone in my Thunderbird address book in such a way that they don't all ...
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Word 2010 & Outlook 2007 - HTML Mail Merge Doesn't Work, Plain Text and Attachments do
Hopefully someone has an answer or fix for this.
When using Outlook 2007 & Word 2007 or Word 2010 & Outlook 2010, Mail merging Works fine.
However there are some systems that have Word 2010 ...
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Changing mail merge data sources in bulk
We have moved Word data sources from an old decommisioned server to a new one, but all the Word documents that relied on them are still trying to reference the old server. Is there any way to change ...
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Microsoft Word 2010 mail merge doesn't work properly with custom macro
I use mail merge to generate letters. These are then merged into one large document which I used to use a splitter for when using Word 2003.
Now I am using Word 2010 and when I run the macro it edits ...
