Trying to do a mail merge with BusinessContact Manager contacts. In Word, I
clicked the Start Mail Merge button, then the Select Recipients button, then
chose Select from Outlook Contacts. Outlook IS open but I then get a dialogue
box stating “Unable to obtain list of tables from the data source.”! Any
suggestion on how to correct this?
Typically when working with /Outlook/ contacts it is more reliable and more
flexible to initiate the merge from Outlook - i.e. go into Outlook, select
some contacts, then open Outlook Tools|Mail merge..., study the options, and
go for it.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, if you try to start from the contacts
lists in Business Contact Manager Contacts, there is no similar facility,
and as far as I can tell, it is not possible to add one.
If you prefer to do it the other way,
a. be aware that the field names of Outlook contact fields differ depending
on how you get the contacts,
b. someone recently posted the following suggestion which seems to me to be
a good thing to try first:
> Here's a resolution which has worked for me. I HOPE it helps in your
> particular case.
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> That's it. This has consistently resolved the "Unable to obtain list
> of tables from the data source" error.

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> Trying to do a mail merge with BusinessContact Manager contacts. In Word,
> I
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> box stating “Unable to obtain list of tables from the data source.”! Any
> suggestion on how to correct this?