How to bcc everyone without them knowing. In Outlook, anyway.

I was asked to find out how to send an email to a list of people while making it look like it was addressed to each of them individually--i.e., so they wouldn't know it was a mass mailing. Using the "bcc" feature wasn't good enough, since the "to:" field would be blank (or would have the sender's name), which would look suspicious and tip them off.

I couldn't find a clear answer in the Microsoft Office help files (big surprise there), nor on webpages. I asked the I.T. department. They didn't think there was a way to do it, except maybe through some complicated method involving Mail Merge. So I investigated, and through the Mail Merge hint, and the murkiness of the Help files, I finally came through with a concrete set of instructions that do in fact work. So if you use Outlook and need to perform this task, here they are. I put this here as a public service. I still hope there's an easier way, however.

( Sending email to multiple people, while making it look personalized for each, without disclosing the entire recipient list: A tutorial  )