The Edit button leads you to a dialog box that lets you add records. If the
Edit button is greyed, you cannot use that method for the reason I
mentioned.
I do not believe that there is a more direct way to go to this Edit/Add
function in Word 2003, at least not that works with an "Office Address Book"
..mdb file.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Relztrah" wrote in message
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Please note that I don't want to edit my current list. I want to ADD
recipients to an existing list and perform the merge again. Are you saying
that I cannot do this in Word? I have to use Access or Excel to add names
to
a mailing label merge job in Word?
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Try "Mail Merge Recipients", then click the Edit button in there.
If the Edit button is greyed out it (usually) means that Word does not
recognise your .mdb as an "Office Address List" any more, in which case
you
can edit the recipients list directly in Access (if you have it) or go
the
route that Doug suggested.
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Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
"Relztrah" wrote in message
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This should be very simple. I created address labels using Word
mailmerge
and
finished the merge, printed the labels, everything's OK. Now I want to
add
new recipients to my existing .mdb file and re-merge. I can open the
original
document and edit the existing recipients, but how do I actually add
new
names and addresses? There is no button on the Mailmerge toolbar to ADD
recipients.
Please provide simple step-by-step instructions because I have tried
everything and can't seem to open my existing data file so that I can
add
names and addresses, only edit the existing ones.