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Email PDF from Mail Merge

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2009-05-20 05:36:41
drayton
Registered: May 20 2009
Posts: 2

Using a data source of email addresses from Excel 2003 and performing a mail merge in Word 2003 with the Mail Merge to Adobe PDF button, everything worked okay and the emails generated to the outbox in Outlook 2003 with the relevant PDFs attached. However, once they were mailed the recipients who use Outlook Express had the attachments missing. I'm using Acrobat 8.1.5

I've seen previous queries about this and it seems to relate to Outlook using a RTF format. I set Outlook to default to html and then plain text formats but still had the same problem.

Can anyone suggest how I can solve this or if the problem is Outlook related, then another email program that would work without causing this problem (preferable freeware or inexpensive).

I have since tried emailing directly from Outlook one of the pdfs that was saved from the merge process to someone who didn't receive an attachment and this time it they received it and were able to view it okay.

Thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1, Windows
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2009-06-25 13:30:20
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Biller
Registered: Jun 25 2009
Posts: 5
I did not have that problem when I email merged thru outlook. The attachment came over fine as pdf.
I'd be happy to answer any questions on my current settings if it would be helpful to you.

I am looking for some help in customizing the actual email. User can input a merge field for the email "To" address field, but no where else. I need to insert merge fields into the Subject Line, as well as the message body. I'm looking for a plug in that will perform that function. Are you fimiliar with how to do this?
THanks
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