[stephen]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I basically seem to have two problems.

I'm not even sure if I have the correct words in so that it will be
recognized in Outlook. In Outlook, I've filtered the categories so that I
only have text next to the box that says "Full Name" and then under
"Addresses" the box says "Business." So in the template, I'm using the
words: ««Full Name»» and ««BusinessAddress»»
Should I possibly using "AddressBlock"?

Also, when I try to save a template, I goes into Word's template folder,
which I can't retrieve because it is under c:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\ApplicationData. But when I go into C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator there is no "ApplicationData." So I can't retrieve
the template.

Consequently, I've saved it in C:\ss\ which I can at least find. But when I
try to save a template in this folder, I save it with ««Full Name»» and
««BusinessAddress»» and then go into Outlook to begin the merge, it gets
changed to «AddressBlock» «GreetingLine». I assume that this it Word's
default template for mail merge but is there some way to turn it off so that
I can do the name and address? Eventually, I do want a greeting line but I
just haven't gotten that far yet.

Sorry for dumping this all on you. Maybe I should put it in several
separate questions like, "How do you save a template without it
disappearing," etc.

Thanks again for any help you can give me.

Stephen

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

But when I try mail merge from Outlook into a .dot with Full Name and
Business Address on it, nothing happens.

I would try creating a .doc with the text/layout/fields you want but no
mailmerge data source. Save it, then make a copy and specify that as the
document to use in the Outlook Mail merge dialog box.

Do you see any signs of activity at all?

Peter Jamieson

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
I am trying to mail merge in Word from Outlook Categories. I have
customized
the current view in Outlook so that it only shows one category and in that
category is only the Full Name and Business Address.

But when I try mail merge from Outlook into a .dot with Full Name and
Business Address on it, nothing happens.

When I try to do mail merge from Word, it says "Either there is no default
mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the messaging
request.
Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail
client."

I have Outlook Express as my default email because I have more than one
Identity. I guess I could change the default to Outlook to do mail merges
and then change it back again to check my email but I'd rather not, if
possible.

Hopefully, someone can help me out as I am lost.

Thanks a lot for any help anyone can give me.

Stephen