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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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The 40 character limit on the length of the field names is not new to Office 2013.
I just had to shorten my column titles, and this took care of the issue I was having with my mail merge. Out of 75 columns on the Access datasource, only four mail merge codes were affected and they happened to all be over 40 characters. Once I downsized the titles to these four columns, the problem was corrected.
This makes me believe that somewhere along the way, there was a limit imposed when they created 2013. Whether they did or didn't, my IT isn't cluing us in. Just thought my little nugget might help some people.
An IT Department knowing anything about Mail Merge? You've got to be kidding.
Why doesn't the functionality work as it should? I used to be able to do this easily in Office 2010. Now it just won't work and you are asking me to download some tools as a workaround. I really would like to speak with someone to walk me though this. I have done what I always did and exactly as described in the How to if this site. Yet, emails are simply not sent. Please help!
What e-mail application are you using?
In what format are you trying to send the messages - Attachment, Plain text, or HTML?