Once you are done composing your email, you can preview it and you can start the actual merge process by clicking on the Start Mail Merge button -> E-mail Messages: To personalize the content, click on the “Greeting Line” or “Insert Mail Merge” buttons (depending on what you want to achieve):ĥ. However, you can not personalize the email subject line. For example, you can personalize the greetings line of your email and make it include the actual name of each contact. Word lets you personalize the email content by inserting merge fields that were imported from your Contacts. It may sound trivial, but many get confused by the use of both terms in the same window, especially since more and more people refer to “e-mail” as “mail”. Since Word can perform both mail merge (printing mass mails & envelopes) and e-mail merge (composing & sending mass emails), make sure you don’t confuse the terms, on the Word interface menus. By “mail”, Word actually refers to the physical mail (you know, the one delivered by your mail man, in an envelope). As a side note, please pay attention to the use of the words “mail” and “e-mail” in Word. Outlook will open a new Word document window, where you can type and personalize your email content. on the mail merge options pop-up window, make sure you select “Merge to: e-mail” (and type a subject for the newly created mass email):Ĥ. once you selected your contacts, click on the Mail Merge button displayed on the main Outlook People menu, in the Actions area:ģ.

from your main Outlook window, go to the People tab and select the desired contacts that you want to include in your Outlook mail merge:Ģ. Basically, you can import Outlook Contacts and personalize mass emails (mail merge), so you can email a newsletter to many recipients, as separate emails.Īssuming you already have an Outlook Contacts list and you want to send a mass email to your mailing list, here are the steps required to do a mail merge in Outlook:ġ.

Although mail merge in Outlook 2013 is pretty limited, it still can be a viable solution for some of us.Į-mail merge using the Outlook built-in merge engineĪs you might know, Outlook benefits from the MS Word document mail merge capabilities, allowing you to apply mail merge in Outlook emails. This article describes how to use the Outlook internal e-mail merge mechanism in order to create and send mass personalized emails.

How to do mailmerge