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Updating info after a mailmerge
Hi All
This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Updating info after a mailmerge
I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the
subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Thanks for your reply Russ.
The reason I need to put this info in the subfolder created for the merge is because it becomes easier to do a phone follow up on the contacts to whom I have sent out the mailer to. e.e. I might have close to 1000 contacts, but a specific mailer would go to only -- lets say -- VP & AVP level contacts -- which could be abt 100 in number and distributed in various folders as per the companies they belong to. So I select these contacts, put them in a folder and then do a mailmerge. The reason I don't use categories is that I do the mailmerge using MS Word and secondly the category information is not entered in all the contacts, so it becomes difficult to select them if I use categories. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Updating info after a mailmerge
So if I understand your question, you prefer to create a copy of your
Contacts to do a mail merge, but not deal with the fact that you now have separate Contact Records for the same Contact. That is a conundrum indeed. Categories is the answer to that problem. The fact that you use Word is irrelevant. All mail merges use Word. You start the merge from Outlook so you can select the Category for the merge. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply Russ. The reason I need to put this info in the subfolder created for the merge is because it becomes easier to do a phone follow up on the contacts to whom I have sent out the mailer to. e.e. I might have close to 1000 contacts, but a specific mailer would go to only -- lets say -- VP & AVP level contacts -- which could be abt 100 in number and distributed in various folders as per the companies they belong to. So I select these contacts, put them in a folder and then do a mailmerge. The reason I don't use categories is that I do the mailmerge using MS Word and secondly the category information is not entered in all the contacts, so it becomes difficult to select them if I use categories. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Actually Russ, the situation is slightly more complex to be solved by
categories. As I have mentioned earlier, I have stored my contacts in sub-folders arranged by their companies. Whenever I need to do a mail merge, I go to each folder and select the contacts I feel are relevant targets for the mailer based on their job titles, my prior discussion with them etc, and then copy these contacts to a temp folder. Doing this sorting by categories, would not be feasible as I might choose to send the mailer to one person in one company and choose not to some other in a diff company despite them having the same job title. I also need to follow up with these people once I send the mailer out. So, I need to somehow manage to keep a track of who all I have sent the mailer to. Copying these contacts to a new temp folder gives me that flexibility, else I will have to remember which contacts I have sent my mailer to -- abt 150 on avg from over 90 odd companies. But doing that creates the problem that now two separate contacts are created. And there seems to be no way I can update the contacts in this folder and it gets reflected back automatically. If there is a way for me to paste a shortcut to the original contact in the temp folder or create a list, then my problem would get solved. This way I will have the contacts ready for follow up as well and won't have to create additional contacts. Thanks and Regards MVF "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: So if I understand your question, you prefer to create a copy of your Contacts to do a mail merge, but not deal with the fact that you now have separate Contact Records for the same Contact. That is a conundrum indeed. Categories is the answer to that problem. The fact that you use Word is irrelevant. All mail merges use Word. You start the merge from Outlook so you can select the Category for the merge. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply Russ. The reason I need to put this info in the subfolder created for the merge is because it becomes easier to do a phone follow up on the contacts to whom I have sent out the mailer to. e.e. I might have close to 1000 contacts, but a specific mailer would go to only -- lets say -- VP & AVP level contacts -- which could be abt 100 in number and distributed in various folders as per the companies they belong to. So I select these contacts, put them in a folder and then do a mailmerge. The reason I don't use categories is that I do the mailmerge using MS Word and secondly the category information is not entered in all the contacts, so it becomes difficult to select them if I use categories. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Seems to me you need CRM software.
-- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Actually Russ, the situation is slightly more complex to be solved by categories. As I have mentioned earlier, I have stored my contacts in sub-folders arranged by their companies. Whenever I need to do a mail merge, I go to each folder and select the contacts I feel are relevant targets for the mailer based on their job titles, my prior discussion with them etc, and then copy these contacts to a temp folder. Doing this sorting by categories, would not be feasible as I might choose to send the mailer to one person in one company and choose not to some other in a diff company despite them having the same job title. I also need to follow up with these people once I send the mailer out. So, I need to somehow manage to keep a track of who all I have sent the mailer to. Copying these contacts to a new temp folder gives me that flexibility, else I will have to remember which contacts I have sent my mailer to -- abt 150 on avg from over 90 odd companies. But doing that creates the problem that now two separate contacts are created. And there seems to be no way I can update the contacts in this folder and it gets reflected back automatically. If there is a way for me to paste a shortcut to the original contact in the temp folder or create a list, then my problem would get solved. This way I will have the contacts ready for follow up as well and won't have to create additional contacts. Thanks and Regards MVF "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: So if I understand your question, you prefer to create a copy of your Contacts to do a mail merge, but not deal with the fact that you now have separate Contact Records for the same Contact. That is a conundrum indeed. Categories is the answer to that problem. The fact that you use Word is irrelevant. All mail merges use Word. You start the merge from Outlook so you can select the Category for the merge. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply Russ. The reason I need to put this info in the subfolder created for the merge is because it becomes easier to do a phone follow up on the contacts to whom I have sent out the mailer to. e.e. I might have close to 1000 contacts, but a specific mailer would go to only -- lets say -- VP & AVP level contacts -- which could be abt 100 in number and distributed in various folders as per the companies they belong to. So I select these contacts, put them in a folder and then do a mailmerge. The reason I don't use categories is that I do the mailmerge using MS Word and secondly the category information is not entered in all the contacts, so it becomes difficult to select them if I use categories. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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Try this:
Use the Phone List view, make a new field for each mailout and use it temporarily. You can call it 24 Nov, make it a Yes/No field and click Yes for all the people you want to mail to. Select them all, Tools | Mailmerge and do the merge. You then still have a record of who you sent the email to so you can follow up by phone. Make another field to tick (check) that you rang and followed up (it could even be a date field). If that's not enough - consider CRM software - it may do a lot more useful things for you and at low cost! Judy Gleeson - MVP Outlook Acorn Training and Consulting Canberra, Australia see what Outlook training can do to improve productivity: http://www.acorntraining.com.au/pdfd...ithOutlook.pps www.acorntraining.com.au/productivit.htm "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Seems to me you need CRM software. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Actually Russ, the situation is slightly more complex to be solved by categories. As I have mentioned earlier, I have stored my contacts in sub-folders arranged by their companies. Whenever I need to do a mail merge, I go to each folder and select the contacts I feel are relevant targets for the mailer based on their job titles, my prior discussion with them etc, and then copy these contacts to a temp folder. Doing this sorting by categories, would not be feasible as I might choose to send the mailer to one person in one company and choose not to some other in a diff company despite them having the same job title. I also need to follow up with these people once I send the mailer out. So, I need to somehow manage to keep a track of who all I have sent the mailer to. Copying these contacts to a new temp folder gives me that flexibility, else I will have to remember which contacts I have sent my mailer to -- abt 150 on avg from over 90 odd companies. But doing that creates the problem that now two separate contacts are created. And there seems to be no way I can update the contacts in this folder and it gets reflected back automatically. If there is a way for me to paste a shortcut to the original contact in the temp folder or create a list, then my problem would get solved. This way I will have the contacts ready for follow up as well and won't have to create additional contacts. Thanks and Regards MVF "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: So if I understand your question, you prefer to create a copy of your Contacts to do a mail merge, but not deal with the fact that you now have separate Contact Records for the same Contact. That is a conundrum indeed. Categories is the answer to that problem. The fact that you use Word is irrelevant. All mail merges use Word. You start the merge from Outlook so you can select the Category for the merge. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply Russ. The reason I need to put this info in the subfolder created for the merge is because it becomes easier to do a phone follow up on the contacts to whom I have sent out the mailer to. e.e. I might have close to 1000 contacts, but a specific mailer would go to only -- lets say -- VP & AVP level contacts -- which could be abt 100 in number and distributed in various folders as per the companies they belong to. So I select these contacts, put them in a folder and then do a mailmerge. The reason I don't use categories is that I do the mailmerge using MS Word and secondly the category information is not entered in all the contacts, so it becomes difficult to select them if I use categories. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: I don't understand why it is necessary to put this information into the subfolder you created for the merge. Why not place it in the original Contact Record? Even better, if you did the merge from Outlook, why not use Categories instead of subfolders to do your merge? -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "35Kimmig" wrote in message ... Hi All This is what I am trying to do. I have a number of contacts in a number of subfolders arranged by their Company name. Whenever I need to do a mailmerge, I copy the relevant contacts into a folder, send it out and then follow up over the phone. Many a times, when I am doing the follow ups --- I get additional information which I note down in the notes section. My problem is that I need to update this information back in the sub-folder that I originally took the contact from. Currently, I have to cut paste the contact into the subfolder, and replacing the older contact entry. Is there a way to paste a shortcut or a link in Outlook?? or is there a way to write a macro which will move the updated contacts back into the original folder ( based on company name)?? TIA Regards |
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