As I said in my previous reply:
"The tutorial has an entirely different process for email merges."



I've been using Word for 25+ years.

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Paul Edstein
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Ok I took your advice and ditched trying to do it the other way. I have been working on the tutorial.

Seems easier than I thought at first. Maybe it's because I am becoming accustomed to all of the {MERGEFIELD} meanings.

I am running into a problem though.

When I am following the tutorial section : Merging by Catalog/Directory to E-Mail

I get stuck on exactly what it means to:

Quote:

First, create your e mail mailmerge main document, setting it up for a normal e mail merge with whatever text you need and a field for the data («Data»). You’ll need to format the paragraph containing the Data field(s) with as many tabs as needed to keep the results of the data fields in your primary data source separate, so as to layout the results correctly.

I have succesfully merged and done the macro. Now however, it merges and just sends the text I wish for the body of the email to include. Im a little lost?

Any help would be appreciated.

*to clarify my issue -
1) I dont quite understand why I am putting data fields into the "email merge main document"
2) isnt that already done by the directory?
3) If not, what does it mean exactly? That I should match the same fields that are in the directory? i.e. Company_Name, etc...and then insert those into the "email merge main document"?
4) Why then does the macro enabled document contain a table at all? Surely that inserts itself into the "email main merge document" and aligns with the email body?

Hope that makes it clearer? Sorry for long post

Thanks