Support "Categories" (Outlook Contacts) in a Word Mail Merge.

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Stuart Troy - 11 Jun 2007 07:41 GMT

Hi Guys,

When your mail merge data source is "Outlook Contacts" how can you choose
the "Category" field, as your merge criteria?

My 600 Outlook contacts are all categorized. But as far as I can see, there
is no way in Word to perform a Outlook contacts merge with the condition
based upon the Outlook contact's category.

My work around is to start in Outlook, highlight the contacts I want to
merge, then initiate the merge from within Outlook.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Stuart
Sydney, AUSTRALIA

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Graham Mayor - 11 Jun 2007 09:01 GMT

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

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> http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=8efa24ab-8dc7-4
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Stuart Troy - 16 Jun 2007 12:48 GMT

Thanks Graham,
That's the process I already use.

It simply frustrates me that Word does not support the Category field in
Outlook Contacts.
It's meant to be an office suite, but IMO the integration between Outlook &
Word is weak.

Cheers
Stuart

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Graham Mayor - 16 Jun 2007 14:39 GMT

If you start from Outlook as instructed in the posted link - it supports
*all* the fields including user fields.

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> Thanks Graham,
> That's the process I already use.
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> Cheers
> Stuart

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