Word 2007 merge to email limitations?

Any word on the Hotfix release?

"Aaron Munoz" wrote:

> I spoke with a PSS engineer regarding my case last week and he indicated
> Microsoft is working on a hotfix to correct this issue. He estimated a
> release date sometime in October.
>
> He indicated that this issue has been reported several times, so I imagine
> there's a fairly large demand for a solution.
> --
> Aaron Munoz, CISSP
>
>
> "Aaron, CISSP" wrote:
>
> > I've experienced this problem at my organization as well. When running the
> > mail merge to email process, the workstation first consumes all physical
> > memory then consumes all of the page file before stopping.
> >
> > Increasing the page file size actually produced worse results. We're going
> > to add more physical memory to the machine.
> >
> > We've opened a case with Microsoft. Their initial suggestion was to verify
> > that the user had permissions to write to
> > C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files or
> > the parallel location on XP. Our users are not admins on their workstations,
> > so I'm going to test this hypothesis.
> >
> > "Ryan" wrote:
> >
> > > I've myself noticed this issue of longer than usual mail merges. Upon further
> > > inspection, I've noticed that email sent through a mail merge in Word
> > > 2007/Outlook 2007 take up almost a megabyte per message, which is ridiculous.
> > > Any suggestions on how to rectify this issue is appreciated.
> > >
> > > "Cathy.Allington@yougrow.com.au" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Glen:
> > > > I too am very interested in this response. Every mass mail programme
> > > > we have looked at involves uploading a file to a web based service,
> > > > and none have been easy to simplay replace an existing fdat source, so
> > > > you end up with many databases. Hope you get some answers
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Cathy
> > > >
> > > > On Aug 15, 5:20 am, GlenH <Gl....DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > > > We have a database of around 20,000 employees. Once a month we need to send
> > > > > each employee an email with the status of an incentive program they're
> > > > > eligible for. We just upgraded to Office 2007 Enterprise. Last month, using
> > > > > Office 2003, the merge to email took maybe two hours. This month, the merge
> > > > > fails after 700 or 800 records with a "not enough memory" error from Word..
> > > > > Looking at task manager, I see that winword.exe is taking up nearly 1.6 gig
> > > > > of the 2.0 gig of ram. Is this just a limitation of Word 2007, or is there
> > > > > some kind of memory leak going on here? Whatever the case, we can't keep
> > > > > breaking up the merge (which is an Excel spreadsheet) into 700 record
> > > > > batches. Service Pack 1 is not installed. Would installing that maybe help?
> > > > >
> > > > > Or is a 20,000 row merge to email just too much for Word/Outlook, and should
> > > > > we look for a mass email solution?
> > > > >
> > > > > Glen
> > > >
> > > >