| Directory Mail Merge and then email using Outlook |
| s k posted at Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:06 PM |
Hi All,
I am new to this forum. I couldn't find specific to Outlook group so posting here.
I am looking for some help in creating a directory mail merge. I have data in spreadsheet in the following format.
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Publisher |
Books |
Email |
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PubA |
Title One |
abc@test.com |
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PubA |
Title Two |
abc@test.com |
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PubA |
Title Three |
abc@test.com |
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PubB |
Book One |
xyx@abc.com |
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PubB |
Book Two |
xyx@abc.com |
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PubC |
One Volume |
mnop@abd.net |
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PubD |
Another Text |
email@newemail.com |
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PubE |
First of Many Books |
last@last.edu.com |
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PubE |
Second of Many Books |
last@last.edu.com |
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PubE |
Third of Many Books |
last@last.edu.com |
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PubE |
Last of Many Books |
last@last.edu.com |
I have created a directory mail merge in which I have got one letter for each publisher consisting of books list I need to order. i.e. One letter to PubA with all three titles. My letter varies with publisher according to number of books.
The problem I am facing is how to email these letters to just one email Id using outlook.
For example, I want to send my directory mail merge to Publisher PubA just once on his email abc@test.com and not three times as shown in my excel spreadsheet.
I have tried merging with new documents and emailing but it mails all 5 letters together to all the emails present in the spreadsheet.
I want individual letters to specific recipients only.
I hope I have explained my problem. Any feedback or help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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VBA Solution |
| Rolf Jaeger replied to s k at Thursday, May 21, 2009 8:51 PM |
Hi there:
I would suggest to run the macro listed below on your worksheet (make sure to set topCell to the cell the first occurrence of PubA is located in (I assumed it might be A2). I have uploaded a workbook that contains both your original sample and the aggregated version: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/fileupload/629396994_BookListAggregation.zip (please note that although the file extension is .zip this is actually an Excel workbook; you'll need to rename it to *.xls before you open it).
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.
Good luck, Rolf Jaeger SoarentComputing http://soarentcomputing.com 510.300.7462 Sub AggregateBooks()
Dim topCell As Range
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim nBooks As Integer
Set topCell = Range("A2")
iRow = 0
Do
nBooks = 0
Do
topCell.Offset(iRow + nBooks, 0).Select
If topCell.Offset(iRow + nBooks + 1, 0).Value <> topCell.Offset(iRow + nBooks, 0).Value Then Exit Do
topCell.Offset(iRow, 1).Value = topCell.Offset(iRow, 1).Value & Chr(10) & topCell.Offset(iRow + nBooks + 1, 1)
nBooks = nBooks + 1
Loop
iRow = iRow + 1
If nBooks > 0 Then
Rows(iRow + 1 & ":" & iRow + nBooks).Select
Selection.Delete
End If
If topCell.Offset(iRow, 0).Value = "" Then Exit Do
Loop
End Sub |
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