Hi Luis,

The procedures I've outlined work for merging to documents, which is fine if you're sending the mailmerges as attachments, though the recipients may find they'll need to press Ctrl-A, F9 to update the fields in the document before the links work properly.

For clickable hyperlinks in an email plain text message, all you need is to use an ordinary mergefield that references the relevant url data field. However, your images (which aren't text) won't get sent with a plain text email.



As HTML mailmerges can only be sent when using Outlook as the e-mail client (i.e. it doesn't work with Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail), and I don't use Outlook, I can't say what works or doesn't work in that case.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul,

so this means that there is no solution?... I checked on the web several documents concerning this, and I even saw OnMerge and add-in third party tool, but I checked with them and it doesn't solve this issue also.
Do you believe you can direct me to someone maybe in Microsoft or on a specific forum, or there is no way at all???
Regards,
Luis

Hi Luis,

I didn't say there is no solution, only that because I don't use Outlook I don't have the means of testing the solutions that work in other contexts to check what works & what doesn't work with HTML email merges.

Another approach that might work is to not use mailmerge, but to write an Outlook macro that achieves the same results. Again, because I don't use Outlook, I can't help you there. For help on that front, you might try asking at an Outlook-specific forum such as Outlook Forums, at: http://www.outlookforums.com/.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul, ok great, at least knowing that "there might be a solution", makes me keep trying! ;-)
I shall keep you posted on this.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Regards,
Luis