Starting Word 2016 for Mac Mail Merge with Gmail already running (on another monitor), Mailings/Finish & Merge “Merge to Email” is greyed out. As all the Mail Merge recipients are in the Gmail file, I need to use Gmail as the source file for Excel. Outlook not available with Office Home & Student 2016 for Mac.

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The Mail Merge toolbar provides additional commands that are not included in the Mail Merge Wizard task panes. For example, you can use the Insert Word Field menu on the Mail Merge toolbar to insert Word fields for controlling the merge process. For example, you can insert an IF field that inserts text only if a particular merge field has a.
In my word document when I click Mailings only Envelopes and Labes are clickable everything else is greyed out. I am trying to Start a mail merge to email. I have my software on two pc's one is a Windows pc and the other a Mac, I have the same issue on both.

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Last updated: 17 Oct, 2019

Existing Mail Merge templates often include some practice-specific information that you need to complete. You'll see this highlighted in yellow when you create a Mail Merge document.

You can edit this standard text for future use by following these steps:

Open Practice Manager from the home screen.
Select Mail Merge from the left-hand menu.
Click on Create New Mail Merge.
Click Continue.
Enter a Name and Description and click Continue.
In Client Selection, click on Specific Clients, select any client and click Add >>.
Click Continue twice.
In Template Selection, select the template you want to edit and click on Use Template.
The template will open in Word. Edit the yellow highlighted sections as required.
If you would like to add your company logo to the header/footer, simply double click the top of the page and insert your company letterhead.
Click on File > Save As. Choose a different location to save the document.
Close the Word document and click on Import Template… within Template Selection.
Browse for the Word document you just saved.
Enter a name and description for this (this will be displayed in the table within Template Selection).
You can now select the template and click on Use Template… The template is now available to use for any other clients.

For further information on how to use Mail Merge see How do I use Mail Merge?

Last updated: 17 Oct, 2019

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