#MAPILAB MAIL MERGE TOOLKIT WITH EXCEL UPDATE#
Without this, the mergefield hover text won’t update to the correct targets.īut the first link is the link that is pulled into each email.
After merging to a new document, use Ctrl-A, F9 to update all fields. Delete all of the previous display text either side of your last-inserted mergefield (note that this field will likely have updated already).ĩ. Insert a mergefield pointing to whatever data field you want to use for the display text (this could even be the same field as used at step 3 above).ħ. Find it in your inbox, select and copy the code from the message.First, make sure.
#MAPILAB MAIL MERGE TOOLKIT WITH EXCEL REGISTRATION#
Position the cursor anywhere within the display text.Ħ. After the payment, an email with the registration code will be sent to you. In Word 2007 & later, you can make the display text variable also, by following these additional steps:ĥ. Select the field and press F9 to update the display. Replace everything in the field after 'HYPERLINK' with your mergefield.Ĥ. Email Merge Pro from STANDSS has pretty much everything I need, but is very buggy when run on Windows 8.
Select the inserted hyperlink and press Shift-F9 to expose its field code.ģ. Ive tried Mail Merge Toolkit from MAPILab and the Send Personally Outlook add-on, but they both have pretty limited functionality. Disregarding mergefield issues for the moment, insert a hyperlink into the document in the normal way, choosing whatever 'Click Here' text you want in the 'Text to display' box.Ģ. It is easy enough to activate their link in my reply, but that tells me there are likely hundreds of people that do not tell me they have that issue. ( ) Recipients of these emails often reply that they cannot click on their link. I've had some success with the Mail Merge Toolkit add-on in the past, but not recently. What I've had to do is turn off the 'Send immediately' setting in Outlook, and then manually activate each link (by putting my cursor after the link and clicking the space bar) in each email in my outbox before sending the emails out. When I finish the merge and view the messages in Outlook the unique links are not hyperlinks. This software comparison between Mail Merger Toolkit and Xgenplus is based on genuine user reviews. Each of the 500+ people I need to email has their own unique link. Let’s have a side-by-side comparison of Mail Merger Toolkit vs Xgenplus to find out which one is better. The troublesome part of my process is the unique link from my Excel file. I use Word, Excel and Outlook 2013 to conduct these mail merges. I'm wondering if there is a way to ensure merge field links are hyperlinks when sent via email using a mail merge?