mail merge not working with office 2013

Anonymous
2013-03-08T16:24:00+00:00

Trying to do a mail merge with office 2013.  I've done this for years with other versions of office (2003, 2007, 2010) but it's not working with 2013 for some reason.  I'm following all the steps, but the emails aren't getting sent.  Is there some way that the profile or something is set up wrong so that word isn't sending this properly? I've also tried to send via outlook, but in outlook I can't choose an excel spreadsheet for the list of contacts. 

What is wrong with this?  someone plesae help me!  My outlook profiles are all messed up becasue i use icloud to sync the calendar and contacts, but i use pop/stmp (whatever that means) for my email....

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-07-07T12:09:26+00:00

    They are at the linked location posted in Doug's replies! MergeTools - 20140218. It's the fifth icon.

    Or you could look at http://www.gmayor.com/ManyToOne.htm  or http://www.gmayor.com/individual_merge_letters.htm  which do pretty much the same as Doug's tools, albeit with some different emphases - except for the merging of charts, for which you'll need Doug's tools.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-07T11:52:55+00:00

    When I go to download the mail merge tools from Doug Robbins page, there are some documents, but the tools themselves are not there. Any assistance would be appreciated.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-13T23:00:42+00:00

    No, it does not make any difference. Only plain text is working with my configuration.

    /David

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-13T05:20:50+00:00

    Thanks Doug and Klogeaage.

    So i have tried the plain text option you gave me and i received an error message. First word wanted to confirm that i wanted to send a e-mail and if i was not i needed to check my antivirus, " A program is trying to access information stored in outlook, If this is unexpected click deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date. 

    so i click allow

    then i get this error message - Word couldnt send mail because of MAPI failure: "Operation not supported"

    This concerns me, please help

    I will be trying your workaround Doug with your add in thanks

    Kind Regards

    Nic

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-12T22:09:34+00:00

    As a work-around, download the MergeTools – 20140218 Add-in that I created from the following page of my One Drive:

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

    Save the file in the Word Startup folder.  In Windows Vista and Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 the default location for that folder is

    C:\Users[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

    When you have done that, the tab shown below will be added to the Ribbon:

    One thing to note is that the field names in your data source must contain only alphanumeric characters (No @,#,$,%,&,(,), etc) and the field names must not start with a numeric character (0-9).

    You may also want to download the Merging with Attachments document that is also on that page which explains how the system is used.  It is not actually necessary to have separate attachments as the facility can be used to send just the documents created by the merge itself as attachments, either in the form of Word files or .pdf files.

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