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I want to know how to personalize email for each recipient on my list using mail merge so that each contact in my list of 5,000 names receives a personal greeting. Does GroupMail have a mail merge feature that will let me personalize my email?

Yes, not only does GroupMail allow you to personalize email for each recipient using mail merge fields in the Subject line and body of your email, but you can also use merge scripts that automatically correct instances when a recipient does not have any content in one of the fields that you want to merge.

Merge to: E-mail; Message subject line: subject Starting a Mail Merge from Outlook allows you to use Custom Contact Fields in Word. Note: For more information about doing a Mail Merge see the Mail Merge guide. Extra tip: Filter your view and choose your fields. To optimize your Mail Merge, you can customize your view so it only displays. You can use insert mail merge fields in the subject line and body of your email. Just click Insert/ Merge Fields Menu or the Merge Fields Icon and select the database field that you want to personalize for each recipient. For example, if you want to merge the first name of each contact into your email, you would click Insert/Merge Field.

You can even send unique attachments and links to each recipient on your list with GroupMail.

Mar 31, 2008 I am not sure what you mean by 'create a merge field in the subject line of an email mail merge' But if you want a different subject line for each message based on the content of a mergefield in the datasource, you should include that mergefield in the catalog (or directory) mail merge that is created as part. Oct 17, 2014 Mail-Merge to E-mail with Subject personalised by Mail-merge Fields I know this is impossible, but it can be approximated. The attached code enables you to put character strings like “”, rather than real Mail-Merge Fields, in the Subject of a WORD Mail-Merge to E-mail.

How to personalize email using mail merge fields

You can use insert mail merge fields in the subject line and body of your email. Just click Insert/Merge Fields Menu [or the Merge Fields Icon] and select the database field that you want to personalize for each recipient.

For example, if you want to merge the first name of each contact into your email, you would click Insert/Merge Field and select the field from your contact list which contains the first name for your contacts. In the example above, it would be under the “Firstname” field. So your email will look like:

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Dear !*FIRSTNAME*!

When the message is sent, though, that !*FIRSTNAME*! merge field will be replaced by the actual first name for each contact on your list and each recipient will receive an email with their first name there. If I was on your list, I would receive my message from you that says,

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Dear Tom

The mail merge data that you insert will be replaced by the actual data for each contact on your list when the message is sent.

“But what happens if some of my subscribers didn’t fill in the first name field on my opt-in form when they signed up for my newsletter? They only put their email address. Can I still personalize my email?”

Great question! It is not uncommon for someone to not fill in some of the information you ask for on your email opt-in form. If some of your contacts leave information out, then you can insert mail merge scripts in your email. Mail merge scripts allow you to add your own content in place of the merge field if nothing exists in that field for a particular recipient.

For example, if one of your contacts didn’t add their first name to your list when subscribing and you used a merge field for first name, they would receive a message that looked like this:

Dear ____________

With IF/THEN/ELSE merge scripts, you can tell GroupMail what to do if it doesn’t find any information in the field that you are merging. For example, you might tell GroupMail that IF !*FIRSTNAME*! contains a first name, THEN use it, ELSE use “Friend” (or whatever else you would like to add in that space for those contacts who don’t have any data in that database field.) So instead of having that awkward blank space, those contacts would receive a custom greeting such as: