By Geetesh Bajaj, James Gordon. In Office 2011 for Mac, mail merge works by bringing data stored in a data table into Word 2011. A good data table’s first row (and only the first row) has the headers, also called fields or column names. All subsequent rows contain data.

I'm using Word 2011 to generate a mail merge to Outlook 2011 (it has an Excel datasource, but I don't believe that is specifically relevant). I consistently get some characters that show up as?? At first it was the apostrophes, so I turned off the autocorrect that substituted in the correct apostrophe character. This last time it was random white space. I would expect Microsoft's office suite to work together nicer then this.

I don't see anywhere to tell them to use the same codepage or character encoding. I'm not terribly attached to using Outlook and Word, but Pages doesn't seem to support mail merge at all.

Does anyone know how to do an email merge in Word 2008? I cannot figure this out and its driving me nuts! I do mail merges all the time with Word on Windows, including the newest version, but it does not work the same. I set up my mail template and import the data from an Excel spreadsheet. Then I drag the 'primary contact' list as the greeting line, but the option to email the list is always grayed out.

Am I missing something simple somewhere? I can 'merge' the list to a printer, or a new document, but that makes no sense. I want it to send all the emails through Entourage. This is the first and only problem I've had with Word / Office 2008 thus far.

I never did this in Office 2004 on the Mac either. Images disappear when completing an email mail merge Hello I have managed to successfully create an email mail merge using word & entourage but have had a few problems & am hoping for someone's help! I have done it in several different ways: 1. I have created a html document using code & embeded images that are on my server & then opened the document using word. This method used to work but after a while whenever I opened the file in word it kept on saying it was downloading the image & never finished doing this & if I created the mail merge the image never appeared. It could be a problem with my code as I am not an expert when it comes to html code. So then I went to plan B & 2.

I tried creating a document just in word with a picture in it. I have had no problems with doing the mail merge but when the emails are created & opened in entourage then the images in my letter disappear. I am unsure why this has happened & it's driving me mad trying to find a solution! If anyone knows why this may be your help would be appreciated.

Also if anyone knows how to link to an image that is on a website from a word document this would be good to know (i.e. To embed a picture that is on a server so that it appears anywhere & so it is not just linked to an image that is on my mac) Thanks! Does anyone know how to do an email merge in Word 2008?

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I cannot figure this out and its driving me nuts! I do mail merges all the time with Word on Windows, including the newest version, but it does not work the same. I set up my mail template and import the data from an Excel spreadsheet.

Then I drag the 'primary contact' list as the greeting line, but the option to email the list is always grayed out. Am I missing something simple somewhere?

I can 'merge' the list to a printer, or a new document, but that makes no sense. I want it to send all the emails through Entourage. This is the first and only problem I've had with Word / Office 2008 thus far. I never did this in Office 2004 on the Mac either.