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

Anonymous
2012-04-19T16:22:02+00:00

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

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-04-19T19:50:04+00:00

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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  1. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-06T03:08:55+00:00

    That Add-in is not designed for use with Office 2003.  On the same website from which you downloaded it however there is a MergeTools2003.dot Add-in that can be used with Office 2003.  It also however is designed to be used with an Excel Data Source.  It is a simple matter however to export the data from Access to Excel so that you can use it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-12T11:57:40+00:00

    Im Struggling to get this to work with Word 2013. Has anyone tried it?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-06-12T14:40:09+00:00

    Hello Doug,

    This worked great in Word 2010. It seemed that your tool defaults to using the first tab in the Excel worksheet. Let me know if I misunderstood.

    Thanks

    Mona

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-12T14:51:46+00:00

    It works fine in Office 365/2013.  If you cannot get it to work, it will be because of issues with the data source and\or the mail merge main document.  If you want to send those files to me, I will check them out.

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