I'll start off saying I  have never had anything but problem with Word 2002
mail merge using my Outlook 2002 contact list.

For awhile, it has been quasi working - at least I was able to select names
from my contact folder and insert them into my mailmerge document.  Now,
however, I have lost the connection to Outlook and, when I try to
re-establish the connection using the Mailmerge wizard I get the error
"Unable to obtain list of tables from datasource".  I am on a single user
machine with Outlook always running.

I am hoping it is something obvious that I might be doing that causes
problems.

Carl