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email as pdf attachment - subject line and attachment named after mail merge
Hello everyone.
I am doing a mail merge from an excel file into Word 2007 to email as a PDF attchment using Acrobat 9 Pro into Outlook 2007. My objective: To email as pdf attachment with subject line and attachment named from a field within word. After I run the mail merge within Word, (I stop at step 5 of 6 within the MS wizard) I click, "Send>Email as PDF Attachment". Wait for Outlook 2007 to give the email window to send it out. What shows up in the subject line and the attachment name is the original file name (lets call the file name "contract template"). What I want is a specific name for the subject line and attachment file name. I have mailing addresses I'm sending to. So in the Word file there is an address of "123 Mainstreet Hollywood CA 90210". I want the subject line and attachment name to be "123 Mainstreet Hollywood CA 90210". Why isn't it doing it? My 2 friends are doing it successful everyday. Can someone please help as it's vital to my business? Thanks in advance! |
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Hi Nexus,
Word can't personalize either the subject line or the attachment name using the standard mailmerge tools. You may be able to adapt the vba code at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...ttachments.htm to use that kind of process to drive your mailmerge process.
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Hello macropad,
I don't understand because I'm watching a video of my friend doing everyday and I know he didn't install that. Yesterday, I got it to work with a slight workaround. I start with the Word template, then mail merge, select recipients from the excel file, and stop at 5 of 6 in the mail merge wizard. I then select all (of the 11 page word doc), copy, then paste all that in a new Word doc. THEN, I send email as pdf attachment which now, both the subject line and pdf attachment, are named after the mailing address. It works just as I want when I paste it all into a new doc. Can you tell me why it works like this now? Why won't Word name the subject line and attachment from the original? |
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Hi Nexus,
The reason you're getting both the desired name for the document and the subject line with your workaround is because (if I understand it correctly) the email subject line is taken from the document's name. Are you sure your friend was using Word, and not Publisher?
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Hi Macropad,
I positive he's using Word as I've watched the video's 5 times and going through the process step by step to make this work. He's not using Publisher at all. |
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OK, so what's he doing that you're not?
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Absolutely nothing.
Which is why I posted here to see if I'm missing something. |
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See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826838. There, MS has this:
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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But Macropad, why is it doing it for me now?
When I get to 5 of 6 in the wizard, I select all, copy the contents, open new doc, and paste, THEN send emails as pdf attachment and it's filling the subject line and naming pdf filename with the property address. I didn't install no macro's so how do you explain this? |
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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Perhaps we are misunderstanding each other.
Why is it autopopulating the subject line and naming the filename with the property address like I want it to when doing it from the new Word doc? However, when I do it from the original Word doc it's naming it with the original filename? |
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Probably because it takes whatever happens to be the active document's name as the 'name' for the subject line. Without having access to whatever code Word uses for this part of the process, one can only surmise...
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Cheers, Paul Edstein [Fmr MS MVP - Word] |
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hmm......Well Macropad, thanks for your help on this.
I think I'm going to call Microsoft themselves since we can't figure this out. Thanks again. |
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