W2007 mailmerge using OL2007 contacts

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John - 15 Dec 2006 04:37 GMT

Every time I use the wizard the process stalls out (program is not
responding) when I try and use the Outlook Contacts choice.

Here's what I want to do.

I have a catagory in OL called Holiday Cards. I want to create a merged list
of labels so I can send out my cards.

When I try to export these contacts in a csv file I get all my contacts. I
am not about to proof over a thousand contacts for the 118 that I need.

What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 15 Dec 2006 06:17 GMT

See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at:

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

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Every time I use the wizard the process stalls out (program is not
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> Thanks in advance.

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Graham Mayor - 15 Dec 2006 06:34 GMT

This hasn't been tested on Office 2007. I have no enthusiasm for that
'upgrade' .... yet :(

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Cindy M. - 25 Dec 2006 09:50 GMT

Hi John,

> Every time I use the wizard the process stalls out (program is not
> responding) when I try and use the Outlook Contacts choice.
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> What can I do?

It's really not clear where you're starting from, which steps you're
performing, at what point the error occurs, nor what error you're getting. That
makes it rather difficult to help you.

Your best bet would be to display the contact list, filtered on the category.
Then in Outlook use Tools/Mail Merge to merge just the contacts in the current
view.

I think Outlook will also allow you to export just the filtered list, if you
prefer the csv route. And in Word, you can click the "Edit Recipient List"
button in the Mailings tab of the Ribbon to create a filter on the Categories
field (click the arrow next to the field name to select from a list).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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