16°C, 0% cloud, light SE wind.

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Access 2007: is supposed to do mail-merge to email. Actually it does, but not well. Firstly, it crashes Outlook, secondly, it doesn’t really save the wizard settings which means re-usability is poor. Last job at work today involved issuing an e-mail to 711 pupils, by the time I’d given up, 200 odd had been sent two copies and another 500 got none. I expect it’s a problem with the network and Research machines appallingly unreliable security policies.

PJ Harvey LP arrived today, I’d hoped to post a picture of it on the turntable, but can’t carry the disc home until Monday.

15°C, no wind, 90% cloud.

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Much better- feel much better now.

Office 2007 includes nice new features, apart from the contentious new interface, there are actually some changes under the bonnet. For the sake of one of my Y11s, I discovered that Access will now do bulk email forms, useful for surveys that are automatically appended to a table on their return. I could use that for sending notices to a class en masse. Now I’m figuring out how to send marked homework back merging from my spreadsheet markbook.