Stan W. wrote:
Graham Mayor -- Thank you for your reply.
Alow me to bring forward several points______
In your last paragraph you made mention of a "third party". What do
you mean by this as knowwhere have I made mention of anyone else.
On the 1st May I asked a question regarding envelopes. Yesterday I
asked about guidance through the setting up of mail merge. These
questions are still unanswered, therefore "people do not answer
questions asked". I also suspect they do not read the message fully,
get an idea in their head and go of on a tangent.
Your previous message referred to people not answering questions. I am not
psychic. I assumed this to mean that it was something to do with your
problem subject of this thread. I did not go trawling through the hundreds
of messages that are posted in the Microsoft forums every day on the off
chance that you had posted elsewhere. However, I have just had a quick look
through all the forums I subscribe to and I see only one other message from
you, which I answered on the 17th March - unless of course you posted under
a different pseudonym!
I find it hard to believe that a company with the resourses of
Microsoft can not come up with something better.
The contributors of these newsgroups have nothing to do with Microsoft. This
is peer support. If you want support from Microsoft, they will be happy to
take your money.
I am starting my mail merge in Outlook. During the process, I get
various unexplained windows. One that I am looking at now is:-
Opening this document will run the following SQL comand:
SELECT * From C:\Documents and Settings\Stan W\My Documents\Accounts
- Crane Hire.doc WHERE ((Categories = 'Crane Hire'))
Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to
continue?
You are dripfeeding information with each post. You need to supply all the
relevant information. As for the SQL message - see: You receive the "Opening
this will run the following SQL command" message when you open a Word mail
merge main document that is linked to a data source -
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825765
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
What does this mean? What do I do here?
(Crane hire is one of the categories that I have created).
Stan W.
Frankly I am still no wiser to what you are *actually* doing than when you
posted originally. All the information required to produce a mail merge from
Outlook data can be found in the links I posted.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
It is difficult to appreciate what you are doing at a distance. It
sounds like you are trying to integrate Outlook data with an
existing merge document with different field names. If you begin the
merge from Word you have a different set of field names and you are
essentially back where you started. If you want to merge from
Outlook to gain the extra configurability that this provides then
you are going to have to edit the merge document to take account of
the fieldname changes.
The posted link http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
explains how to get the data. At the end of that page there is
another link that explains how to create a (label) merge. Labels are
arguably the most complicated of merges, but other merges are
similarly conceived.
Now you have introduced a further variable "people do not answer all
questions asked" ? What people, what questions? None of this is
going to be easy to set up for third parties until you have a good
grounding in the principles of mail merge.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
Yes, both Word and Outlook are 2003.
This is getting more and more confusing -- Is there some where that
will show you, step by step, how to set this up?
I have had data windows open with nothing in them, windows that say
data will be moved to some where else and not retained. Word opens
with several pages of meaningless fields, and on top of this, people
do not answer all questions asked.
Stan W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
The document file is the mail merge document that you propose
merging the data into.
The contact data file is the file used to save the subset of the
records you wish to merge. Otherwise the function creates a
temporary file for the purpose of this merge..
I take it that you have both Word *and* Outlook 2003?
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
O/K........I click on Mail Merge from the Outlook Contacts view.
This opens a window "Mail Merge Contacts".
In the centre of this window we have "Document File" -- New
document or Existing document.
What is the meaning of this? Am I suppost to create a file
containing ALL accounts in Outlook Contacts or only those that I
want to merge. Where do I keep this file?
I have been experimenting and when Word takes over I have come up
against a window that said something like Word cannot open this
Data file.
I also have my own envelope, when I inport it, the merge toolbar
greys out. Shoud I be printing these separatly then putting them
back through to address them?
Stan W.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Stan W. wrote:
I am using Word 2003 to Mail Merge Outlook folders ( Contacts or
Business A/c's) to envelopes.
When I get to the "Mail Merge Recipients" window, is there any
way of editing the recipients apart from unckecking the box on
their row? Also, can the columns be change to hold different
info?
I am just starting into this venture and antisipate 2000 +
addresses eventually.
Mail Merges antisipated a- Country, country and state, post
code or geographic region, and Business categoriety.
I have removed updates for the period 12-13.04.06 without any
noticable change.
Thanks
Stan W.