Mail Merge With Outlook 2003 & Word 2003

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ersh78 - 01 Aug 2004 06:20 GMT

I am trying to do a mail merge using the addresses in my
Outlook 2003. I have gotten as far as choosing a contact
list folder to use. (I also have the business contact
manager in use with outlook). The choices I have for the
merge that are available through my business contact
manager work fine for the merge, but the regular contacts
list does not pull up any information. I have done this
several times and get the same result everytime. The
contacts list seems to be looking in the wrong place for
the information. The contact list description
says "Personal Folder/DeletedItems". Please let me know
how to have the mail merge find my regular Outlook
Contacts file to use in the merge. I know that the
contacts are there somewhere!!!!

Thanks

ersh78

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Doug Robbins - 01 Aug 2004 14:59 GMT

You will have more control over the data if you initiate the mailmerge from
Outlook.

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ersh78 - 01 Aug 2004 21:22 GMT

Doug:

Thanks for the help. It seems to be working now. I will
be able to select only the contacts I need by filtering in
Outlook fairly easily.

Do you know why them mail merge wouldn't work initiating
it from the Word document?

I will be needing this feature a lot in the near future
for a business I am starting, and you have made my life a
little easier by your assistance.

Thanks,

ersh78

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Graham Mayor - 02 Aug 2004 06:59 GMT

Word only has limited ability to merge from Outlook - Outlook provides the
missing functionality.
See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

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