pasting mailing lists into windows vista mail

I have a very long excel spreadsheet with email address in one column. With
the older outlook product I was always able to cut and paste the column into
the TO field and send mass emailings.

Now that I am using winmail I get an error when I try to do this:
CHECK NAMES: no matches found ........

I have a clunky work around-I have added semicolins to each email address in
the excel sheet but this of course is not a useful permanent fix.

Can someone tell me how to turn off the "check names" feature or if this is
not possible, how winmail can be used with excel to send mass mailings.

You posted the same question in the WLM newsgroup. The same experts
tend to hang out in both newsgroups, so you're not likely to get a different
answer.

There is no way to turn off that "check names" feature. Windows Mail and
Windows Live Mail insist that multiple recipients be separated by a
semicolon.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"sonnichs" <> wrote in message news:11197881-4FC9-4A8C-ADDB-...
>I have a very long excel spreadsheet with email address in one column. With
> the older outlook product I was always able to cut and paste the column into
> the TO field and send mass emailings.
>
> Now that I am using winmail I get an error when I try to do this:
> CHECK NAMES: no matches found ........
>
> I have a clunky work around-I have added semicolins to each email address in
> the excel sheet but this of course is not a useful permanent fix.
>
> Can someone tell me how to turn off the "check names" feature or if this is
> not possible, how winmail can be used with excel to send mass mailings.
>

Thank You Gary

I moved to this forum based upon the recommendation of another respondant.

I have since found that Thunderbird handles copying and pasting of mailing
lists and I am converting to that.

Thank You again,
Fritz

Good to hear you found a solution.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
Microsoft MVP program: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"sonnichs" <> wrote in message news:EF9ECD43-AB6F-4FB1-843D-...
> Thank You Gary
>
> I moved to this forum based upon the recommendation of another respondant.
>
> I have since found that Thunderbird handles copying and pasting of mailing
> lists and I am converting to that.
>
> Thank You again,
> Fritz

FWIW,
In Windows Mail I am able to paste a column of email addresses copied from
an Excel spreadsheet, and it works just fine.

In Windows Live Mail, it doesn't work, because the ";" is required.



--
Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail



"sonnichs" <> wrote in message
news:EF9ECD43-AB6F-4FB1-843D-...
> Thank You Gary
>
> I moved to this forum based upon the recommendation of another respondant.
>
> I have since found that Thunderbird handles copying and pasting of mailing
> lists and I am converting to that.
>
> Thank You again,
> Fritz