See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at:
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
To mail merge to email, you use a formletter type mail merge main document
and in the final step of the merge, you select email as the destination.
You are then presented with a dialog box in which you select the field in
the data source that contains the email addresses.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Louverril" wrote in message
...
Thanks Peter but as far as I could see you cannot initiate an e-mail merge
from here - only a merge to a letter/envelope. file etc...?
Let me know if you know how to mail to e-mail from Outlook (sounds like
something you should be able to do!).
Lou
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
You shouldn't have to do this, but it's likely to solve this problem:
a. stop trying to use the Merge Wizard
b. go into Outlook
c. open your contacts folder
d. go to Outlook Tools|Mail Merge...
e. take it from there.
Peter Jamieson
"Louverril" wrote in message
news
Please can you help me access my Outlook contacts during a Word e-mail
mail
merge. I cannot get help from Microsoft because I purchased the
software
from
the British Computer Society!!!!! (On a private use scheme - or similar
name).
When I select "choose contacts folder" in the mail merge wizard, if
Outlook
is open, I then select the contacts list (there is only one contacts
list)
from the contacts list window.
Instead of seeing the contacts I get the following message "the
operation
cannot be completed because of dialog or database engine failures.
Please
try
again later."
I tried closing Outlook and before the contacts list window I have to
pick
a
profile - again there is only one: "outlook internet settings" - so I
pick
this, get the contacts list and proceed as above, the same error
message
appears.
I've tried restarting the PC and using a completley new Word document
but
it
makes no difference. I can pick up data from other sources (eg,. a list
of
recipients on an Excel file) but not from Outlook.
BACKGROUND:
I'm running Windows XP professional, Office Professional Edition 2003.
Iam
the only user on the stand alone PC - there has only ever been one
user.
When Office 2003 was installed it took all the settin s form the
pervious
version 2000.
WHAT I HAVE ALREADY TRIED:
Have tried
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...186361033.aspx.
I have no other profile to change to so that was no good. Also I
checked
the
property and the folder was set to Show this folder as an e-mail
Address
Book. So nothing else to try on that.
I also tried all the suggestions on
http://support.microsoft.com/error.a...aspx/kb/322215.
None of the fixes worked (getting latest MDAC version -already had it)
or
repairing word or registering the Jet Engine stuff). The work arounds
suggested in this article are of no use because they do not allow you
to
merge to e-mail.