[thomasv]

Thanks Peter,

I haven't tried this yet, but will later on. As our organization has a quite
rigid security setup, it may though not function. If it does, we would also
somehow have to deploy it to tens of users.

Is it thus not possible to easy have direct access to the Global address
list from Word?

Thomas

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I think this is pretty unlikely to work, but you can try it anyway (it works
here, but I can think of several reasons why it would not - primarily
security-related).

Create a folder (say c:\a)

Create an Access .mdb called gal.mdb in there.

Don't have Access? Then you can create a .mdb in Word as follows:
a. Start the Mail Merge Wizard, get to the point where you select a data
source, then select "Type a new List" and click Create.
b. type one letter into the Title field in the form, delete the letter,
then click Close. Click Save in the dialog box that appears. Save the file
with name gal.mdb in the usual way.

Find out the name of the Outlook Profile you are using. I think you should
be able to do this by going into Windows Control Panel-Mail-Show Profiles

As far as I know, the default in Office 2003 is "Outlook", but it isn't
something I know a lot about.

Open Notepad and copy the following text into it, starting with the html
line and ending with /html

html
head
meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/x-ms-odc; charset=utf-8"
meta name=ProgId content=ODC.Table
meta name=SourceType content=OLEDB
meta name=Table content="Global Address List"
xml id=docprops/xmlxml id=msodcodc:OfficeDataConnection
xmlnsdc="urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficedc"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
odc:Connection odc:Type="OLEDB"
odc:ConnectionStringProvider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB .4.0;Data
Source=c:\a\gal.mdb;Mode=Share Deny None;Extended Properties="Exchange
4.0;PROFILE=Outlook;TABLETYPE=1;TABLENAME=Global Address List;";Jet
OLEDB:Engine Type=48;/odc:ConnectionString
odc:CommandTypeTable/odc:CommandType
odc:CommandTextGlobal Address List/odc:CommandText
/odc:Connection
/odc:OfficeDataConnection
/xml
/html

If your Access database isn't called c:\a\gal.mdb, modify the Data Source=
value accordingly.
If your Outlook profile isn't called "Outlook", modify the PROFILE= value
accordingly.

Save the file as (say) gal.odc in your "My Data Sources" folder

Create a new mail merge main document. When you select the data source,
choose gal.odc.

I would be interested to know if that works for you.

Even if does, I would use this approach with caution. If it doesn't work,
sorry, but I doubt very much that I will be able to work out why!

Incidentally, a .odc file normally has quite a lot more stuff in it. It
isn't needed to connect Word to a data source, but it does have its uses if,
for example, you want to inspect the data source using Internet Explorer.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"thomasv" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I would like to access the Outlook 2003 global Address book from Word 2003
to be able to do some mail merging. When I use the mail merge wizard, I
can
though just use Contacts from Outlook, not the global Address book.

Is there thus any way to access the global Address book for mail merging,
either from Word or from Outlook?

Copying all info from Address book to Contacts would probably not be a
good
option, we have 5000 - 15000 contacts, haven't though counted them...

Thomas