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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / October 2003Mailing labels
For years I used address data in a Word table to create mailing labels with Windows95 and Windows98. It was easy and worked beautifully. Now, since upgrading to Windows XP, I find this no longer works. Instead I'm directed to a Mail Merge Wizard, which refuses to recognize my existing table as a valid data source and apparently requires that I retype all the data to create a new Address List to be saved in a My Data Sources folder. Microsoft seemingly has a compulsion to fix things that aren't broken. Is there no way to avoid retyping all my address data? George Aster Hi George, If you open the View menu and select Toolbars and click on the Mailmerge toolbar, you will get a toolbar with all the buttons you need without having to use the mailmerge wizard. You might also be interested in the article of "Getting back older interfaces" in the Mailmerge in Word 2002 section of fellow MVP, Cindy Meister's website at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MergFram.htm Also see Graham Mayor's site at http://www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com/ Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis. Hope this helps Doug Robbins - Word MVP > For years I used address data in a Word table to create > mailing labels with Windows95 and Windows98. It was easy [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > George Aster With Doug Robbins excellent help, I have now learned that a Word table can still be used as a data source in Word 2002 just as it was in Word 98. The Word document containing the table must not have anything else in it and the column headings must not contain any spaces. Mailing labels can then be generated either with the help of the Mail Merge Wizard or directly by use of the Mail Merge toolbar. Thanks, Doug. George Aster >-----Original Message----- >For years I used address data in a Word table to create [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >George Aster >. |
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