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1. #WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT HOW TO#
2. #WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT MAC OS X#
3. #WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT CODE#

Now, launch up /Applications/Mail.app and go to Mail and select Preferences. This step isn't necessary, but I highly recommend it, because it gives you a chance to spotcheck the merged emails before they go out. Then click on Outlook and select Work Offline. Since we're using a Gmail account as an example, you would click Other Email.Įnter the appropriate information, and then click Add Account. Launch up Outlook and select Outlook > Preferences.Īdd whatever account you plan on emailing from. Under Forwarding and POP/IMAP, make sure Enable IMAP is selected (you may have to scroll down a bit to see the option).įor some reason, Google doesn't consider Outlook to be secure, so in order to access Google from Outlook, you'll have to go to /settings/security/lesssecureapps and select Turn on. So, with Gmail as an example, go to Settings. I'm using Gmail as an example, but you can do an email merge with any kind of email account, as long as it can be put into Outlook (Exchange, POP, IMAP, etc.).Īlso, please be mindful, since you don't really have an unsubscribe button in Outlook email merges, that you should still be complying with the CAN-SPAM Act guide.

#WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT HOW TO#

This blog post is really about how to do an email merge using Microsoft Office on a Mac, so here are the steps and considerations. Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) Email Merge

#WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT MAC OS X#

This Apple support communities discussion has some interesting other workarounds in Mac OS X for doing an email merge, including using the Mail Merge add-on for Thunderbird. If you don't mind the developers having access to your Google information, then you may want to explore these options: There are also some third-party add-on solutions. Here are some examples of those SaaS solutions:

#WORD FOR MAC MAILMERGE MAIL GRAYED OUT CODE#

In fact, all the mail merge code needs dragging into the 21 st Century.If you're an organization doing a lot of targeted mailings and campaigns, you may want to consider uploading your email lists to an online service that will track campaigns and templates for you as well as give your users an easy way to unsubscribe. Microsoft – another item for your Outlook To Do list. But you have to remember that each contact added/deletion in the Group also needs a Category change. Then filter the view to show only contacts with that Category. One workaround is to manually select the contact group members.Īnother workaround is to put all the Contact Group members into a Category or custom field. (we may be wrong, if you can figure it out, please let us know).Ī mail merge can be started from Outlook using manually selected contacts from a list.

In other words, there’s no contact field that can show if a contact is a member of a specific Group. We can’t find a way to display Contact Group members in a View. A mail merge can be started from a current Outlook contact view. That’s annoying since, presumably it would not be hard for Microsoft to get the Contact Group members then continue with the merge. It means you can TO, CC or BCC to a Contact Group but not use the same group directly in a mail merge from Outlook. A Contact Group (formerly distribution list) is a way to bring many contacts together under a single name (like Friends, Customers, Enemies etc).

It’s something we’d never thought to check but Cindy is quite right. I got an error message stating “Contact groups cannot be merged. ‘ Outlook will not allow me to choose a Contact Group on which to perform a mail merge. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.Ĭindy M tells us about a curious oversight in Outlook …