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User-defined fields in Outlook

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Mark Rae - 01 Jun 2005 09:46 GMT
Hi,

Firstly, I apologise if this is a frequently-asked question...

I need to set up a mailmerge between Word 2003 and Outlook 2003, and have
been asked to filter by one or more user-defined fields.

According to this Microsoft KB article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818851), Outlook
UDFs are not available as merge fields in Word.

Is there an "accepted" way round this?

E.g. I'm reasonably familiar with VBA, and am sure given enough time I could
write some MAPI code to interrogate the Outlook folder and output the
contacts to a Word merge document or something similar, but wondered if
there was an easier / better way so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Any assistance gratefully received.

Best,

Mark Rae
Peter Jamieson - 01 Jun 2005 10:53 GMT
user-defined fields are available if you initiate the merge from Outlook
(select a contact folder or some contacts, then use Outlook Tools|MailMerge.

Peter Jamieson

> Hi,
>
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> Mark Rae
Mark Rae - 01 Jun 2005 11:06 GMT
> user-defined fields are available if you initiate the merge from Outlook
> (select a contact folder or some contacts, then use Outlook
> Tools|MailMerge.

Thanks.
 
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