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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / December 2005Mailmerge labels from Outlook
Using outlook/word 2003 on xp sp1+ starting in outlook and following http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm I find that my 30+ contacts will only generate 1 page of 7*3 labels in word hence there's 9+ missing why does word do this? I use the all contacts from this view and when presented with a list to tick or otherwise of the contact names i delete a few, but there's still 30+, but word only ever gives me one page (21 contacts) Help please >Using outlook/word 2003 on xp sp1+ > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >Help please mega bad form I know, answering ones own post but I agree with the msvp in here, the mailmerge in word/outlook is far too complicated there was one button out of 15 that I hadn't pressed, now I have all my contacts on 2 sheets of labels I always say to myself when something is too complicated "how would a little old lady handle this?" obviously, she'd give up come on MS, make your software easier to use or eventually you'll get replaced by a competitor This issue crops up every year around Christmas when Joe Public produces his one and only merge of the year - the Christmas card labels :( Microsoft changed the way merge works in Word XP (retained for Word 2003). This was to attempt to make the job simpler by using a task pane type of wizard. The general consensus is that for those familiar with Word 2000's way of doing things, the changes were not an improvement. For this reason I prepared the article at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm which used a label merge (the most complex of the standard merges) to demonstrate how to master it. Mail merge from Outlook creates other problems. You could merge from Word as above, but this limits your options and recent security considerations have made the converter harder to use, so the method suggested at http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm is the preferred option. I have not been involved in the beta testing of Word 12 so whether this will be improved in that version is anyone's guess. Those who need to use mail merge on a regular basis don't have much trouble working around the issues. The little old lady and her Christmas card list can come here for help ;)  Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> >> Using outlook/word 2003 on xp sp1+ >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > come on MS, make your software easier to use > or eventually you'll get replaced by a competitor I guess from your second post that you discovered that you hadn't completed the merge :) Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Using outlook/word 2003 on xp sp1+ > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Help please >I guess from your second post that you discovered that you hadn't completed >the merge :) You're dead right on that as well as the little old ladies and me doing the xmas labels thanks for being around merry xmas |
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