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January 3, 2008 at 09:34 AM
jessica lynn

Mail Merge Excel without Word

by jessica lynn . Updated 18 years, 10 months ago

We want to be able to easily send out personalized emails to staff with their PTO balance.

I started with the M$ attendance-tracking template to determine how many days staff members have taken off, and used other worksheet to determine how many PTO days staff are eligible for (we have a funky accural calc).

So right now, I have a worksheet that has Name, email address, # of PTO days used, # PTO days remaining.

I want to send each staff member a personalized email:

Dear: {{name}}

You have used {{# of PTO days used}} leaving you a balance of {{# PTO days}}.

I’ve been messing with the Word email/merge but it kinda sucks. I can’t seem to save the email address and subject. I’d like to have something that is sort of push a button to send out the update. We have our admins doing this for a large number of people and I don’t want to make this complex for them.

Ideally, it would be a button in Excel they could double click that says “click here to send out update”.

I like this mailmerge script in Excel http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/tips/tip92.htm

But can’t seem to translate this to an email.

Another option is to be able to set up a word template so they can open it and it runs. Right now, they need to do a mail merge each time (annoying).

Help

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