Changing "From" field in Microsoft Mail Merge

[taubepat]

Hi - I saw that this question was posted by someone several years ago,
but didn't see any answer. I have done several mail merges in Outlook
and have become comfortable with it. However, I want to be able to
have these emails go from a shared email folder that I have access to
send emails from. No matter what I do, when I complete a mail merge,
the emails always are sent from my main email address. Does anyone
know how I can change the "From" field in the email to my other email
folder? At the end of the merge, it asks for the "To" and "Subject"
info, but there is nowhere to change the "From". It's driving me
crazy and I can't imagine it's not impossible to do??????? Help??!!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Change the default e-mail account to the one you wish to use for the
duration of the merge.

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[Bolzey]

How do you change the default e-mail account?

Change the default e-mail account to the one you wish to use for the
duration of the merge.

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[Bolzey]

I should mentioned that I am running on Microsoft Exchange Server and I can
send emails "on behalf" of another email address. I want to e-mail merge and
send from that particular email address. Can that be set as a default for the
"From" address field?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

There is no provision in Word to do that. You will need to login to the
mail system as the user in whose name you wish the messages to be sent.

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[Peter Jamieson]

Something you could try: if you use an approach such as the one Doug Robbins
describes at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm

then I think you can specify the "Send As" mailbox by specifying

objMailItem.SentOnBehalfOfName = "the mailbox name you want to use"

What happens then depends on what permissions the Exchange Admin. has give
to the currently logged in User. If they have permission to Send on Behalf
As, the mail is sent out with a "Sent on behalf of" address. If they have
permission to Send As, it goes out as if it was from the specified user.

 

[Bolzey]

Mmm. I don't beleive there is a password for the name I wish to send messages
from. It's actually a generic email address shared by 5 of us. I will have to
get my IT guys to help to set that up.

 

[Bolzey]

Actually, didn't need to worry about passwords. I changed the default account
with no problems. Perfect!