Mail Merge (Word 2016 for Mac)
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To make Outlook the default
- Open Apple Mail
- Go to Mail Menu and choose Preferences.
- Click Default Email Reader.
- Choose Outlook.
- Quit apple Mail.
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In order to merge to email you must have Microsoft Outlook [or Microsoft Entourage] specified as your default email program. Other email software [such as Apple, Mail, Thunderbird, etc.] do not have the necessary support for that capability.
You're right -- there no longer is a "wizard", but the tools on the Mailings tab are arranged in a rather logical progression from left to right.
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Bob J.
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What a pain. You now have to be a DuPont Engineer to figure out to do how mail merge. Why did they have to reinvent the wheel.
Although I think you have gotten to last step I am going to answer assuming you're starting from scratch.So other listening in (or viewing along with us). Can see steps as they are supposed to occur.
- You have Choice of Addresses from Outlook Excel or Apple Address book.
If you're going to use a list created in Excel
Open Excel and create columns with the following header titles
(Do this way so you sort list based on last name, first name):
First
Middle
Last
Address 1
Address 2
City
State
Zip
EmailWeb Site
- Now fill in information on people you want in List.
- Save in Excel 2016 Format.
- Quit Excel.
Now Open a Bank Document let's assume to be a letter:
- Click on Start Mail Merge
- Click Select Recipients, at this point, locate the Excel list You created, and Choose.
- Now Click Filter List for excel List created Just insert the header names (First Middle Last Address etc until all are listed. (on outLook list and apple address you have to put a compare to field)
- At this point click in document at starting point of Merge Fields
- Now click insert Merge field choose first field which would be First type space and insert second filed. At address you would hit return advance to next line put a space then address2. Hit return. Put in city state zip.
- Click on Preview results and depending up how many rows of addresses you have you start with 1 then advance to next number. at this point you could go edit Recipient List if needed then advance to next and so on.
- Now click on Range and either select individual address a series 1-10 or select all
- Now when you click on Finish and Merge a option list will come That save as individual documents, Print, and (only if you have any mails addresses listed email. Most Likely your email client must be Outlook to use email when it allows email).
Note when I tried out email ds show but test list I had created had email address as one of the columns. The first time you try mail Merge, it's like I said, you need to have the intellect of DuPont Engineer to figure out what to do. Once you do it a time or two then it seems simple.
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How do I tell if my outlook client is the default client on my mac? I'm really struggling to get a mail merge to emails working.
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In order to merge to email you must have Microsoft Outlook [or Microsoft Entourage] specified as your default email program. Other email software [such as Apple, Mail, Thunderbird, etc.] do not have the necessary support for that capability.
You're right -- there no longer is a "wizard", but the tools on the Mailings tab are arranged in a rather logical progression from left to right.
But the mail merge function is grayed out....
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i have office 2016 for mac and OS X 10.10.5 and when doing a mail merge to email outlook has crashed and will not respond
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Your right.. I cant get mail merge to email working either, and I can't get any answer to this problem...
I'm using OS 10x El Capitan
very dissaponting..
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I have used the MS support line and they are VERY subpar. Their knowledge of the product and the issues is very disappointing.
I would have a very hard time recommending this product to any one.
First I was told it was a limitation of the product and then I was told that 2016 has bugs and they are working on them
Everything is over seas and the support is BAD.
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT
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I have used the MS support line and they are VERY subpar. Their knowledge of the product and the issues is very disappointing.
I would have a very hard time recommending this product to any one.
First I was told it was a limitation of the product and then I was told that 2016 has bugs and they are working on them
Everything is over seas and the support is BAD.
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT
Thanks, i thought so.... Such a shame....
I'm going to cancel my subscription
-Larry Posner
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I've tried setting Outlook 2016 as default email reader in Mail (since I can no longer do that in Outlook like I could in 2013). Tried restarting Word and Outlook. Tried creating a recreating my Mailmerge document from scratch. Impossible to get the Merge to E-mail option to work at the end.
Please fix this. Not really happy I have to revert to 2011 to perform this task.
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