This is where Easy Mail Merge comes in, one of our best ideas yet – with it, you can easily personalize and manage all your campaigns, import outside contacts, schedule your sent emails, as well as insert attachments to the mail merge, and no coding know-how or extra effort is required. If you just want to send a generic newsletter to a select contact list from Outlook (since it can only send messages to Outlook contacts and addresses lists), then it will probably suffice, but what about a larger, more dynamic user base? What if you have your mail merge address list outside Outlook, saved in a different file? And here we come to this week’s topic: what if you want to add an attachment to the mail merge campaign? The short answer is: you can’t – although you have the option to insert a file attachment, the outgoing email will include just the file shortcut, not the file itself! While workarounds for external addresses lists and so on could be found, this last requirement can only be accomplished by either spending a couple of hours inserting code in different Outlook files (and no one can guarantee the attachment mail merge’s success – also, many users are not familiar with the VBA Editor), give up or try a 3 rd party solution. This is one of the lesser known features of Outlook and, even with its many limitations and intricacies, the results can still be regarded as good – it depends on each user’s requirements. Not many people know that you can perform a mail merge campaign without any additional, 3 rd party software installed – the only programs needed are Microsoft Outlook and Word.

How can you send out a mail merge email with attachments? The email can have many layouts and be about any number of subjects, but the action is the same it can be personalized, contain one or more attachments and so on, all done automatically through different means and/or programs. The action where one (be it company or person) sends out a number of documents from a single template form and a structured data source is called a mail merge email campaign. I think that, these days, everyone who has an email address is subscribed to at least one newsletter or site and receives updates from them periodically.

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