How do I email a .pdf attachment through a mail merge Word & Outlook 2010

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We email out group interest letters, the merge letter is created in Word 2010 and than email through mail merge Outlook 2010. We attached a .pdf flyer to each email. (at this time we are email one at a time.)

Is there a way to attach a .pdf file to an email blast (mail merge)? We are running XP right now but will be changing to Windows 7 with in the coming weeks.

Any help we could get on this would be great. Everything I have been able to pull off the internet is on earlier visions of Microsoft Office and Windows.

Thank you in advance.

ShannonKay

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K MVP Volunteer Moderator

I have looked at this but this is for earlier versions of Microsoft Office. I need something that will work with Office 2010, but thank you!

While the method to which Gordon gave you the link will work with any version of Word from Word 97 onwards, I have developed a much simpler method that you can use if you download the MergeTools – 20120225 Add-in that I created from the following page of my OneDrive:

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=5aedcb43615e886b#cid=5AEDCB43615E886B&id=5AEDCB43615E886B%21566

The mergetools template must be saved in the Word Startup folder.

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Anonymous

2012-11-05T01:57:09+00:00

I have the same issue as Shannon and downloaded and installed your template, Doug. However, how do I use it with my merge document and excel recipient file?
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Charles Kenyon 170.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2012-04-22T09:13:26+00:00

Not directly, it requires an Excel data source. However, it is relatively easy to insert a text data source into an Excel spreadsheet.
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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2012-04-21T23:49:52+00:00

Will this work if I am not using excel but a text file generated from our records program?

No, you will need to open the text file in Excel and save it as an Excel file and then attach the Excel file to the mail merge main document as the data source.
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Anonymous

2012-04-21T14:44:47+00:00

Will this work if I am not using excel but a text file generated from our records program?
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