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How to set up a macro to insert a file into an email using an email address in file

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How to set up a macro to insert a file into an email using an email address in file

How to set up a macro to insert a file into an email using an email address in file

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There is no macro language.

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OK lets forget macros - what I am trying to do is short cut the process of sending out personnel email attachments with generic attachments.

I send out monthly a personnel notice to 50 people that has three other attachments.

I make the three attachments as an email template then attach the individual attachment.

It is from this attachment I was hoping I could extract the email address and first name to shorten the process.

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What is the master document from which you compile your list of addressees? Could you turn it into, or extract from it, a CSV file of names and email addresses?

If so, then a Mail Merge might be a useful solution for you.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/

But I'm not confident about mailing each addressee a unique attachment. That's kind of outside the remit of an email client. More what payroll software, or more generally, a database is designed for.

Modified by Zenos

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Thanks Zenos

Looks like I am at a place I did not want to go.

I have the master in Excel and I was trying to avoid building a database but it looks like that is the way to go PJGW