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
    2015-03-14T22:04:53+00:00

    What happens when you try?  Probably best if you send me a copy of the data source and the mail merge main document so that I can check them out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-30T14:22:54+00:00

    I would recommend you check out the Word Add in called SnappyStamp. Not only will it allow you to send the word document as a pdf attachment you then get the added bonus of being able to track who opens your email etc. Basically you get full email analytics!

    It works on Word 2003 to 2013.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-12T14:47:52+00:00

    I created a Word document that needs to be the Body of the email. I added <<GreetingLine>> to the Word document and then used the Mail Merge utility to attach 2 documents. When I send them I receive the 2 attachments but all of the emails say "<<GreetingLine>> instead of Dear Bob, like it should. How can I have the email body use the spreadsheet as the source for the Dear Name line and still use the utility to attach the documents? I have over 200 emails this is going to so one by one is not an option.

    Thank you.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-06-13T02:45:40+00:00

    With the Merge with Attachments facility on my Merge Tools Add-in, it is not possible to use compound fields such as the AddressBlock and GreetingLine fields.  Instead of using those fields, you will need to insert the fields from your data source directly into the mail merge main document.

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