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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2008Use outlook 2007 without exchange server.
Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is there a quick way to fix this? Yes.  SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, dannyb asked: | Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that | I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is | there a quick way to fix this? OK I'll bite. What is it? > Yes. > > | Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that > | I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is > | there a quick way to fix this? Of course other than using the exchange server. > OK I'll bite. What is it? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > | I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is > > | there a quick way to fix this? You first - provide details on what problems you are having. No one could possibly decipher what you are talking about without a problem description. "Every problem that I come across..." We are not clairavoyalant, you know. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, dannyb asked: | OK I'll bite. What is it? | [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] ||| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is ||| there a quick way to fix this? I guess that my main problem is that when I attempt to do a mail merge in word using the step wizard, at step 3 I get "Unable to obtain list of tables from the data source.". Then when I try to start from outlook through tools, mail-merge, existing document, I can't find the templates so I use a docx of the template and I can't change any of the contact fields because the toolbar for doing that is greyed out, so I try to use it as it is but the unchangeable fields don't match ( full_name versus first_name, last_name) so I try to go back and split the full name field into first name lastname fields but outlook won't let me etc. > You first - provide details on what problems you are having. > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > ||| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is > ||| there a quick way to fix this? I don't use mail merges often enough to be fluently conversant with the process but you can start here: http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.asp If you have additional questions, feel free to follow-up with specific problems. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, dannyb asked: | I guess that my main problem is that when I attempt to do a mail | merge in word using the step wizard, at step 3 I get "Unable to [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] ||||| that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna ||||| be). Is there a quick way to fix this? Thanks Milly Staples but I have tried that step through and always dead end. I should start at the beginning. I don't seem to have any address books that are connected with anything in the new outlook program. They show up in contacts though. If I try to send an email by clicking New, and then Mail Message, this opens the Untitled - Message (HTML) window. When I click on "To" I get the Select Names window and there are no Address books in the drop down list to choose from. I have always assumed that this is because I didn't buy or sign up for "exchange server" and have been trying to make outlook 2007 work from my machine like earlier outlooks worked. What am I missing? > I don't use mail merges often enough to be fluently conversant with the process but you can start here: > http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.asp [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > ||||| that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna > ||||| be). Is there a quick way to fix this? Is your Outlook Address Book service installed and configured correctly? Check Tools->Options->Mail Setup tab->E-mail Accounts. Check the last tab to ensure the service is installed. If not, then add it, close and restart Outlook. Also, ensure that each of your contact folders are marked as an Outlook Address Book - Right click->Options. SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, dannyb asked: | Thanks Milly Staples but I have tried that step through and always | dead end. I should start at the beginning. I don't seem to have any [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] ||||||| that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna ||||||| be). Is there a quick way to fix this? Yes it says Outlook Address Book under Name and MAPI under TYPE. Note that the remove button is greyed out. > Is your Outlook Address Book service installed and configured correctly? Check Tools->Options->Mail Setup tab->E-mail Accounts. Check the last tab to ensure the service is installed. If not, then add it, close and restart Outlook. > [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > ||||||| that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna > ||||||| be). Is there a quick way to fix this? And the answer to my second instruction is?? SignatureMilly Staples [MVP - Outlook] Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without reading. After furious head scratching, dannyb asked: | Yes it says Outlook Address Book under Name and MAPI under TYPE. Note | that the remove button is greyed out. [quoted text clipped - 88 lines] ||||||||| fact that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I ||||||||| don't wanna be). Is there a quick way to fix this? I'm sorry I missed your second paragraph. None of them are currently outlook address books and the "show this as an outlook address books" option is greyed out on all of them. I have gone through the step by steps attempting to add a new address book but it tells me that another cannot be created and when I attempt to remove it, it is greyed out? > And the answer to my second instruction is?? > [quoted text clipped - 90 lines] > ||||||||| fact that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I > ||||||||| don't wanna be). Is there a quick way to fix this? Hi Milly > And the answer to my second instruction is?? > [quoted text clipped - 90 lines] > ||||||||| fact that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I > ||||||||| don't wanna be). Is there a quick way to fix this? I recently upgraded to Outlook 2007 from 2003 and I have been searching forums looking for the same issues I am having. My contacts show up when I click the contacts folder but they do not show up in the address book. I followed all of the instructions here and I have all of the same results: grayed out boxes on the properties tab of the contact folder when trying to add contacts as an address book, etc. I have also read that creating a new profile will so the trick but I tried that, imported my PAB and they showed up in the contacts folder but not in the address book and none of my email accounts or previous emails came over. Is there some known flaw with 2007 that can be hotfixed? Any help is greatly appreciated, and I am sorry to jump in on your post dannyb. > Hi Milly > [quoted text clipped - 92 lines] > > ||||||||| fact that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I > > ||||||||| don't wanna be). Is there a quick way to fix this? > I recently upgraded to Outlook 2007 from 2003 and I have been > searching forums looking for the same issues I am having. My [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > but not in the address book and none of my email accounts or previous > emails came over. I suspect you didn't correctly connect your old data file to your new mail profile. State the exact steps you took to create your new mail profile and connect it to your old data file. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Thank you for replying Mr. Tillman. Outlook 2007 performed the upgrade install automatically without any intervention from me. The Outlook address book shows up in the "Tools" "Account Settings" window under the "Address Book" tab. The remove "X" is grayed out and when I try to add another "Outlook Address Book" it won't let me saying I already have one. I have also tried to right-click on the "Contacts" folder and then try to enable it as an address book but the box there is also grayed out. If I click on the "Address Book" icon and type in a name and search it says "The search cannot be completed you must have an address list to search in...." I also went to Control Panel and click on Mail and saw I had three profiles already, "Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings" which is what I am using, "Outlook" and "Reinstall". When I clicked on Outlook it went through the wizard the next time I opened Outlook and asked me to import my account, which I did, but I still had the same results and unfortunately, it didn't import any of my dozen or so email accounts. Perhaps I just missed something easy? > > I recently upgraded to Outlook 2007 from 2003 and I have been > > searching forums looking for the same issues I am having. My [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > profile. State the exact steps you took to create your new mail profile and > connect it to your old data file. > Thank you for replying Mr. Tillman. Outlook 2007 performed the upgrade > install automatically without any intervention from me. The Outlook > address book shows up in the "Tools" "Account Settings" window under > the "Address Book" tab. The remove "X" is grayed out and when I try > to add another "Outlook Address Book" it won't let me saying I > already have one. Outlook 2007 does not create a good mail profile at its installation. You need to create a new one. I assumed you had, since you said, "I followed all of the instructions here." The instructions posted here nearly every day state that you need to create a new mail profile. See this: http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm . Next time, don't hijack someone else's thread. Start your own. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] Thanks for the help, but no need to get nasty though. I did apologize to dannyb for jumping onto his thread. > > Thank you for replying Mr. Tillman. Outlook 2007 performed the upgrade > > install automatically without any intervention from me. The Outlook [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm . Next time, don't hijack > someone else's thread. Start your own. > Thanks for the help, but no need to get nasty though. I wasn't nasty. What did I say that makes you believe I was? SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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