Problem with Office 2003 envelope address block

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Jenny - 17 Nov 2006 18:15 GMT

I cannot get mail merge to print anything in the address block except for
"Street Address" over and over. I've studied the tutorial; I believe I am
doing everything correctly, but the program will not put in the information
from my Excel database. Please help. Thnk you.

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Peter Jamieson - 17 Nov 2006 19:20 GMT

if you're having trouble with "ADDRESSBLOCK" fields you should probably try
using individual fields instead, cf. Graham Mayor's page at

http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm

I'd try to describe addressblock fields, but since you've already fought
with the tutorial (which one??) it's probably not worth it...

Peter Jamieson

>I cannot get mail merge to print anything in the address block except for
> "Street Address" over and over. I've studied the tutorial; I believe I am
> doing everything correctly, but the program will not put in the
> information
> from my Excel database. Please help. Thnk you.

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Graham Mayor - 18 Nov 2006 06:43 GMT

And if the data is from Outlook - you may be interested in the
pre-configured envelope templates available for download from my web site.

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> if you're having trouble with "ADDRESSBLOCK" fields you should
> probably try using individual fields instead, cf. Graham Mayor's page
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Jenny - 27 Nov 2006 16:23 GMT

Thank you, Graham. I just want my stupid program to work. Why won't it do
what it's supposed to do?

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> And if the data is from Outlook - you may be interested in the
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Jenny - 27 Nov 2006 16:53 GMT

Peter, Thank you very much for your reply. I took a quick look at your
website. I'm sure it's very helpful, but, darn it, I just want my stupid
program to work the way it's supposed to. I paid for it and, now, it seems I
have to do a bunch of reading to figure out a way to make the thing do what
it's supposed to do already. It's a pain!

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> if you're having trouble with "ADDRESSBLOCK" fields you should probably try
> using individual fields instead, cf. Graham Mayor's page at
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> > information
> > from my Excel database. Please help. Thnk you.

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Graham Mayor - 28 Nov 2006 06:10 GMT

Like everything else in life, some things work better than others. If you
are American and have standard format American addresses, then AddressBlock
probably works OK. For the rest of the world (and probably for Americans
too) you can merge individual address fields in any layout you want just as
you have been able to do since the earliest versions of Word.

As with any other complex piece of software, you have to be prepared to
learn how to use it to do what you wish to achieve - or pay someone to do it
for you.

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> Peter, Thank you very much for your reply. I took a quick look at your
> website. I'm sure it's very helpful, but, darn it, I just want my
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