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Hello, I have Office 2016 which has outlook, Excel and Access in it. I want to start a mailing/emailing list of my clients so Ill be able to either send out emails or snailmail to
Which is the best software to do this in and can it easily be used to send out emails from outlook when needed?
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Hi,
Excel is simplest. Access is best if you have other data than names and addresses, especially if different kinds of information are interrelated.
I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.
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It depends on what you want to do. Outlook has some CRM capabilities. Access can be configured for even more. Excel is for crunching numbers NOT data.
Hi, I have no idea what a CRM capabilities even mean. sorry Im new to all this. Im building my own clients now and want to be able to email or mail out specials when needed.
It does help. I'll only have name, address, phone and emails on this list
I would go with Excel.
You would do a mailmerge within Word attaching to your Excel workbook.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/mail-m...
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................I want to start a mailing/emailing list of my clients so Ill be able to either send out emails or snailmail to
Which is the best software to do this in and can it easily be used to send out emails from outlook when needed?
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If you're intention is to send out emails to individual members of your list, then the obvious choice is going to be Outlook.
Beyond that, if your intention is to <only> do bulk type mailings either via email or snail-mail then it would be your choice in terms of comfort zone as to whether you would maintain your list in either Excel or Access but typically Excel is a far easier program to learn/use. If it's a mix of individual emails and bulk emails, then Outlook is probably the best choice.
Your bulk email/snail mail requirements would be done via the Mail-Merge function in MS Word.