Importing Corel Address Book (.abx) Merge Data

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FM Engineer - 01 Jan 2006 16:01 GMT

Are the steps listed anywhere about using Corel's Address Book data (.abx
files) as the data source for printing labels in Word 2000? I can't get it
to work, after many attempts/methods. Thanks.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Jan 2006 16:36 GMT

Based on the information in the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=196093 an .abx file is a comma separated
values file.

What methods have you tried to use?

I don't know if such files contain a header row with the field names in a
format that is suitable for use as the mailmerge fields, but if not, you
should be able to open it with Wordpad and add such a row.

All that you may have to do is change the files of type setting when you go
to attach the data souce to All Files (*.*) so that the .abx extension file
is displayed. Alternatively, change the extension of the file to .txt and
select the Text files type in the dialog.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Are the steps listed anywhere about using Corel's Address Book data (.abx
> files) as the data source for printing labels in Word 2000? I can't get
> it
> to work, after many attempts/methods. Thanks.

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FM Engineer - 01 Jan 2006 18:16 GMT

> What methods have you tried to use?

The "Merge Wizard." I can get to and display the .abx data filename, and
double-clicking on selects it as the data source. But when I try to merge,
although it seems to be reading the abx file, at the end of the merge process
I get empty labels.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Jan 2006 18:43 GMT

See the article "Mailmerge Labels with Word XP" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at

http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

>> What methods have you tried to use?
> The "Merge Wizard." I can get to and display the .abx data filename, and
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> process
> I get empty labels.

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