1. Email Merge Is Greyed Out In Word File
2. Email Merge Is Greyed Out In Word Format

To work around this problem, manually remap the Mail Merge fields so that the Courtesy Title field is mapped to the correct Mail Merge field. To do so, follow the steps in the 'How to Remap a Mail Merge Field' section in this article. To work around this problem, perform the mail merge operation from Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Click the Contacts bar. On the Tools menu, click Mail Merge, and then click OK. The contacts are exported to a data file, and then Word 2003 starts and connects to the data file. You can then perform the mail merge in Word 2003. If Merge to E-Mail is grayed out, it means Word doesn't think that Outlook is the default email client. I've seen two situations for this—one is addressed with that command in case Mail stubbornly keeps itself as the default email client, and the other is the corresponding Outlook version not being installed.

Word 2016 For Mac Merge To Email Greyed Out Hi, This grayed out options will be enabled when you use the Mail Merge feature in Word. For example, to start the Mail Merge with an Excel file, please follow: 1.

Word: Reattach Excel mail merge data source

September 27, 2011

A few times my colleagues and I have experienced the situation where a mail merge template lose its connection to its data source (in my client’s case, an Excel spreadsheet). I suspect it’s because Word is storing the file path to the data source somewhere that we can’t see or find. I’ve been setting up the letter template and the data source on my computer and then emailing the files to my colleagues, who’ve then dropped the files onto a network drive or into a local folder. Sometimes the mail merge works; other times they just get grayed out options on the Mailings tab in Word 2007 (likely the same in Word 2010).

I figured out a quick fix to reattach the data source to a Word 2007 mail merge letter template:

1. Mailings tab > Select Recipients > Use Existing List.
2. Navigate to and select the Excel spreadsheet (or other data source if you’re not using Excel), then click Open.
3. Select the worksheet in the Excel file when asked (in my client’s case, it’s the well-named ‘Sheet 1’!)

That’s it. All the Mailings tab options are now available to you.

Email Merge Is Greyed Out In Word File

Email Merge Is Greyed Out In Word Format

If you know of any way to find out what source a particular mail merge is using, or how to find the stored file path for the data source, I’d appreciate it if you could add that information to the comments below.