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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / December 2003Using Outlook 2003 Contacts as Word's Address Book
I'm using Office 2003. I want to use Outlook's Contacts to address envelopes and labels in Word. But I'm having a problem. In Word, when I select Tools > Letters and Mailings > Envelopes and Labels then click on the Insert Address icon, I get this warning: "Address Book failure: 'Unspecified error'. Check your Mail setup. You must have Extended MAPI version 1.0 or higher to use this feature." How can I get around this problem and use Outlook's Contacts? Are you using Outlook 2003 and is it set as your default mail client? Do you know you can select the contacts in Outlook and begin the merge using Tools, mail merge?  SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Search for answers: http://groups.google.com Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30 > I'm using Office 2003. I want to use Outlook's Contacts to address > envelopes and labels in Word. But I'm having a problem. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > How can I get around this problem and use Outlook's Contacts? Is Outlook your default Email program and Contacts Manager? Does your Outlook profile have the Outlook Address Book Service installed and configured correctly? SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > I'm using Office 2003. I want to use Outlook's Contacts to address > envelopes and labels in Word. But I'm having a problem. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > How can I get around this problem and use Outlook's Contacts? >Is Outlook your default Email program and Contacts Manager? No. Does it have to be? I favor Eudora and expect to continue using that. >Does your Outlook profile have the Outlook Address Book Service installed >and configured correctly? I don't know. How can I do that? This all seems unnecessarily complicated to me. Outlook has a list of contacts in a file somewhere. All I want Word to do is access that information. Is there a straightforward way to do that? Only by doing what I posted. You cannot mail merge to Outlook if Eudora is your messaging program. You can always change it back after you do the merge. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > >Is Outlook your default Email program and Contacts Manager? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > contacts in a file somewhere. All I want Word to do is access that > information. Is there a straightforward way to do that? >Only by doing what I posted. You've lost me. What did you post. >You cannot mail merge to Outlook if Eudora is >your messaging program. I don't want to do mail merge. I simply want to select Tools > Letters and Mailings > Envelopes and Labels then select an address from a list. Is this the same as Mail Merge? One thing I should mention is that I was able to do the above selection of saved addresses when I was using Office 97. But with Office 2003, I can't do it. Help! Insert Address from Outlook uses the same messaging transports as doing a mail merge. That's why you need to do what I posted in my response: make Outlook your default program for mail and Contacts and make sure you added the Outlook Address Book to your profile. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > >Only by doing what I posted. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > was able to do the above selection of saved addresses when I was using > Office 97. But with Office 2003, I can't do it. Help! >make >Outlook your default program for mail and Contacts and make sure you added >the Outlook Address Book to your profile. Okay. How do I do these two things? 1. Control Panel > Internet Options 2. Go to Tools | E-mail accounts, select "View or change existing directories or address books", and click OK. If you don't see the OAB in the Directories and Address Books list, click the Back button, then select "Add a new directory or address book", then "Additional Address Books", and add the OAB. Then keep clicking Back until you get back to the first dialog box, and go back to the Directories and Address Books list as you did earlier. Once the OAB appears in the list, select it and then click Change to make sure the Contacts folder(s) you want to display are listed. If any of them aren't listed, you'll need to enable those Contacts folders as Outlook Address Books by right clicking the folder, selecting Properties, clicking the Outlook Address Book tab, and checking the "Show this folder as an E-mail address book" box. Make sure you restart Outlook after making these changes. SignatureRuss Valentine [MVP-Outlook] > > >make > >Outlook your default program for mail and Contacts and make sure you added > >the Outlook Address Book to your profile. > > Okay. How do I do these two things? Same problem here, but I've been initiating the mail merge from Word and cannot get a link to Outlook Contacts folder. Error message ' "This operation cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failtures. Please try again." I guess these Christmas cards won't be in the post very soon! Let me know what you hear regarding your problem, OK? >-----Original Message----- >I'm using Office 2003. I want to use Outlook's Contacts to address [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >How can I get around this problem and use Outlook's Contacts? >. |
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