Re: Creating emails from Word

[Rob Phillips]

Thanks, Peter. Opening Mail and changing my default email app to Entourage worked. The 'No services apply' message is still present no matter which App I use.  Just one of those mysteries, I suppose.  I never use it anyway! Rob On 14/06/10 8:53 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 12/06/2010, at 9:48 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: I'm not sure if this is one problem or two (or more...) I occasionally do mail merges from M$ Word to email. For the last month or more I've been unable to do this.  In the meantime, I've upgraded to Snow Leopard, and from MS Office 2004 to 2008. I can do mail merges to file or to printer, but the 'merge to email' button is greyed out. Looking into it a bit more, I've been trying some other things without success. Using the Word File menu to 'Send to' email, but the option to 'Mail recipient (as attachment)' is greyed out. This may not be related, but when I look under the Services menu under application's menu, a greyed out message 'No services apply' appears. Of course, normal email works (assuming you get this :-), but the communication between programs seems to have failed. My normal email program is Thunderbird 3, but I also use Entourage 2008 for work calendars. Any ideas? Rob The Send To option works fine on my system, but I use Mail as my default email client. It's possible that Thunderbird is not a recognised email client for Word 2008 to use. As far as as Services menu goes, I suspect that's because Word 2008 is still a Carbon application and probably not written to support the Snow Leopard Services structure correctly. Try setting your default email client to Mail or Entourage temporarily and see if things change. Peter Hinchliffe        Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482    Mob 0403 064 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- Associate Professor Rob Phillips Educational Development Unit Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Currently on sabbatical leave -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>