Re: XPsp2 prevents emailmerge with Outlook 2003; enhanced security ?

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From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] (suemvp_at_outlookcode.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:35:53 -0400

If you want to avoid the security prompts, you need to choose HTML as the
format. That's been the case since Outlook 2002 SP2. 

-- 
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
     Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
     Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
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"pj" <pat_jordan.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:e2FDqwPjEHA.1040@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the reply
> I used the plain text option
> P
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" <suemvp@outlookcode.com> wrote in message 
> news:e2mwvNHjEHA.2436@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> What format did you choose for the merge result -- HTML, attachment, etc?
>>
>> "pj" <pat_jordan.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:u3CYtNGjEHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Last week I email-merged hundreds of students their results without 
>>> effort. I installed SP2 and tried the same yesterday, but the security 
>>> pop up that says, "A program is attempting to send mail on your behalf. 
>>> Do you want to allow this?" popsup.  The option to "allow for n minutes" 
>>> does not allow at all, and each individual mail must be mouse-yessed, 
>>> after a five second delay. So, a lot of sitting and clicking.
>>> I'm using Word 2003, extracting data from an Excel 2003 spreadseet, 
>>> talking to Outlook 2003 as the mail program; and Windows Update tells me 
>>> no updates are outstanding.
>>> Anybody able to verify this as an issue?
>>> Anyone able to come up with a workaround?

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