Click field names from your Excel data in From box on the left to the corresponding Outlook fields in the To box on the right. Perform this for every field you need from your Excel data. Click OK and Finish to complete the data import. Aug 17, 2016 - How to prevent winmail.dat file types in Outlook. Manually type-in the recipients email address into the 'To' portion of the email, then send the.
Thankfully, it’s possible to configure Office for Mac to launch directly with a new blank document instead of the Document Gallery. So let’s walk through how to start with a blank document in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac!
Differences Between Office for Mac Applications First, let’s talk about a few minor differences between the three main Office for Mac applications. When I referenced “Document Gallery” above, that technically only refers to what it’s called in Word.
Although it functions the same way (and this tip applies to all Office for Mac apps), this same window is called the “Workbook Gallery” in Excel and the “Start Screen” for PowerPoint. Configure Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to Open with a New Document The Document Gallery may be helpful for some, but as I said, not so much for me. So to get rid of it and start with a new document by default, open Word (or Excel or PowerPoint), and then choose Program Name Preferences from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
When the Preferences window opens, click General. For Microsoft Word, find the option labeled Show Word Document Gallery when opening Word and uncheck it: For Excel and PowerPoint, follow the same steps, except remember that this window has a different name in each application as referenced above. Once you’ve unchecked the corresponding box in your Office for Mac applications, you can test it out by quitting and then relaunching them.
This time, each app should open directly to a new blank document instead of the Document Gallery or equivalent. How to Access the Document Gallery Again OK, so you’ve prevented the Document Gallery from showing up when you launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
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But what if you actually want to see this screen again once you’ve made this change? To do so, just select File New From Template from the application’s menu bar, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-P. What About Older Versions of Office? The steps in this tip apply to the latest version of Office as of the date of publication, which is Office 2016. What about older versions of Office, such as Office for Mac 2011?
This version also has a Document Gallery, but it works a bit differently. To launch Office for Mac 2011 applications directly with a blank new document, find and check the box labeled Don’t show this in each Office application. Just like with Office for Mac 2016, with all three 2011 versions you can see the Document Gallery again after making this change by selecting File New from Template from the menu bar or by using the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-P. Launching With a New Document in iWork Finally, if you prefer to use Apple’s iWork suite —, and — instead of Microsoft Office, there’s a similar method to force those apps to launch directly with a new document (Apple calls its version of the Document Gallery the “Template Chooser”). Just open Pages, Numbers, or Keynote and select Program Name Preferences from the menu bar. On the General tab of the Preferences window, find the option labeled For New Documents and select Use template: Blank. As you may have guessed, if you prefer to launch these apps with your own custom template instead of a blank document, just click the Change Template button and select your desired document template.
Configuring your productivity apps to launch directly to a new document seems like such a minor change, but I gotta tell you that it makes me happy to not have to pick that blank template every time I open Word. That’s precious time that I could be using for more important things! Not that I do any important things, you understand, but at least I could. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest using the box below. Get tips, reviews, news, and giveaways reserved exclusively for subscribers.
In the past I have been able to send a group email by copying a column of email addresses from an Excel spreadsheet and pasting it into the To: window of an email message I had composed. I simply dragged my cursor down the column containing the email addresses, right-clicked Copy, put my cursor into the To: window of the email, and hit Paste. Mail recognized the list as a series of email addresses and I was able to hit Send and the email went on its way. Today I tried to do this and after I hit Send I got an error message. It appears to me that Mail did not recognize the list as a series of individual email addresses but saw them as one long address; the error message said it 'did not appear to be a valid email address'. Has something changed in Mail?
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I recently installed Mavericks! I can't be the only one who sends group emails this way. Are others experiencing this problem? Now Tony, I know you can't hear my tone on a forum post but I was not complaining, simply stating facts 😉.
This change brought several people in my office to a grinding halt in a long established workflow that is really rather simple (and I thought was already assumed from the original post above ðŸ˜.): 1) Select a set of records in FileMaker Pro 12 and export only their e-mail addresses as a CSV file. 2) Open that CSV file in Excel. 3) Copy the column of e-mail address. 4) paste into the appropriate recipient field in Mail. 5) Send If I were to complain it would be about Apple's typically opaque approach to updates. There is no granular explanation of why changes were made or even 'what' changes were made. Complaining is futile since Apple is Apple and is unlikely to change, but sometimes it is cathartic to 'shout into the void' ðŸ˜.
I had thought about doing something with a formula in Excel and your suggestion was simple and helpful🙂. Again, however, it is only a workaround for a long established helpful behavior that Apple has inexplicably broken/removed in Mavericks Mail😢. I, and the other posters here, would love to have the capability back rather than have to add previously unneeded steps to our workflows. Ultimately we may add scripting steps to the FileMaker side to export the address lists with commas inserted already if Apple ends up having permanently removed this feature. That workflow could be made a lot simpler Why do you need to copy the.csv file into excel?
Try this in Automator: 1) Open Automator and select: Application 2) Select Action 'Ask for Finder Items' (not necessary, but edit prompt to: Select.CSV File) 3) Select Action 'Filter Finder Items' (to csv files) 4) Select Action: 'Run Shell Script' (select: Pass As Agruments) enter: sed 's/$/,/' $1 pbcopy Here's what it will look like Now, all you have to do is: 1) Select a set of records in FileMaker Pro 12 and export only their e-mail addresses as a CSV file. 2) Run that Automator App just created and select the CSV file 3) P aste into the appropriate recipient field in Mail. Thanks for the suggestion Tony. I was hopeful that would provide us an even easier workflow! However, I set up my Automator Application just like you specified and it doesn't seem to do anything to the addresses.
They simply get pasted in with quotes around them and spaces between them, no periods? I did a little quick research on the sed substitute command and found that your suggested shell script was missing the 'g' flag. I also substitued a quotation mark (') in place of the $ that you had in your script. Once I made those changes it works perfectly and provides the e-mails formatted as needed for pasting into mail! Here is the modified shell script that I used: sed 's/'/,/g' $1 pbcopy Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. This makes things almost as simple as before. In the past we had the following steps: 1.
Run script in FileMaker Pro (this found the appropriate records, exported the e-mail addresses to CSV and automatically opened it in Excel) 2. Select and copy the column of addresses. Switch to mail and paste. Now we simply: 1. Export the CSV. Run the Automator application 3. Select the created CSV in the dialog box 4.
Switch to mail and paste. Now if I can set up automator to monitor the desktop and automatically run when an 'untitled.csv' file is created. That is my next task!
UPDATE I set it up as Folder Action associated with the Desktop folder and dropped the first 'Ask for Finder Items' command and Boom! All I have to do is export and then paste!
Message was edited by: kbacon. Kbacon wrote: I did a little quick research on the sed substitute command and found that your suggested shell script was missing the 'g' flag. I also substitued a quotation mark (') in place of the $ that you had in your script. Once I made those changes it works perfectly and provides the e-mails formatted as needed for pasting into mail! I incorrectly tested on a plain text file that had 1 emai per line, and no quotes, i.e. ('$' is end-of-line) Nice that you were able to de-bug it.
Now if I can set up automator to monitor the desktop and automatically run when an 'untitled.csv' file is created. That is my next task! You can create the Automator as a Folder Action, but I wouldn't use the Desktop Folder (although I guess you could).
(The reason why I wouldn't use the Desktop is that the Automator will run whenever any file is placed on the Desktop) You should be able to create an Auomator Service, this way you can highlight the csv file and right-click to run. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.