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Mailshot

How do I do a mailshot from Excel?

Edited on Wed 14 Mar 2007, 09:37

RE: mailshot

Hi Alistair,

A mailshot facility is usually initiated from a word processing package like Word. In Word you can go in to the Tools menu and go down to Letters and Mailings and follow the wizard. Where it says do you have an existing data source say yes and browse to your excel spreadsheet containing the data.

Good luck and let me know how you get on

Tracy

RE: mailshot

Thanks Tracy,

Definitely a step in the right direction.

What I'm trying to do is, from a spreadsheet containing 100 mobile phone bills, email the individual bills to the individual people. But the Mail merge seems to just email the same spreadsheet to everyone.

I'm thinking of trying to write a macro that does them one at a time and just repeats till all 100 are sent.

Cheers
ALi.

RE: mailshot

How about trying to use Access instead of Excel to store your information. If you have Access you can import your spreadsheet table from Excel. There are alot more ways of sorting and producing reports and mailings.

If I/we can help let us know

Tracy

Excel tip:

Formst Excel to display leading zeroes

Select the cells that you want to have displaying leading zeroes.

From the 'Format' menu select 'Cells' (Or Right-click on the selected range and and select 'Format Cells').

In the 'Number' tab click on 'Custom' in the 'Category' window.

In the 'Type:' box enter zeroes that correspond to the size of the required number (eg 5 zeroes).

Click OK.

When you enter numbers into these cells, leading zeroes will be displayed.

eg 123 = 00123

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