How to get a "ghost" field of Outlook printed by Word merge

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dilettante - 03 Aug 2006 18:26 GMT

I would like to send some letters using MS Word and its function for merging
the addresses of Outlook Contacts.
When I choose Contacts as data source everything works well out of .........
... the field "Name" in the select mask is empty, seaching for a name I
find the contact only in the field "show contact as", if I use "Contacts" to
put a single address in a letter (without the merge procedure) it works.
Someaone has a idea of what could be wrong?
I see that the current solving answer is "start merging from Outlook", but I
would like to start from Word.

> Thank you for any help!

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Graham Mayor - 04 Aug 2006 06:45 GMT

The suggestion to start the merge from Outlook is made because this
dramatically increases the power of the merge and is in fact one of the
better features of Outlook. See
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

Once the data set has been selected the merge hands over to Word and the
merge proceeds as any other. The old filter (if it has not been disabled by
security patches) has a limited field set and lacks any of the powerful
record selection facilities offered by the Outlook tool.

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> I would like to send some letters using MS Word and its function for
> merging the addresses of Outlook Contacts.
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