Mail merge as someone else

Question

Is it possible to send e-mails to a large group of people through mail merge, from someone else's account? I have full access to my managers outlook account and can send e-mails appearing to be from him, but when I have tried mail merge through word, they appear to be from myself? I need to send out communications with over 100 people on Friday from my manager, and I really don't want to have to do it individually.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Natasha,

To change the sender's email address in mail merge with word, we need to add the email account to our desktop Outlook application. After that, it’s possible to send e-mails to a large group of people through mail merge from another account.

To achieve the feature, we need to make some changes in our corresponding Outlook application account first.

1. Add the email account you wish to send From to your Outlook account.
2. Set it as the default email by going to File/Account Settings/Account Settings and clicking on the email you want.
3. Click on Set as default - a check mark will appear next to the account.
4. Then go to File/Options and under the Mail Category/Send Options make sure that the "Always Use the Default Email to Send Messages" is checked off.
5. Save and Exit.

For your reference:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_windows8/how-to-change-the-senders-email-address-in-mail/86110d33-3330-45b3-a7d4-dc9a5cf2e528

Or you can achieve it via another method below.

1. Go to the Outlook application, click FILE > Account Settings > Email and set the account which you want as default.
2. Go to FILE > Account Settings > Data Files and change the default data file associated with the email account you want to use it.

For your reference:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_winother/mail-merge-with-multiple-email-accounts/79829fc2-0026-4355-9273-60cc6f443d4d

Regards,

Allan

Answer 2

Hi Natasha,

Feel free to let us know if you need further help.

Regards,

Allan