If you start the merge from Outlook *all* the contacts fields are available
for merge. There was no mention of the home phone field because there are no
problems associated with this field. Start the merge from Outlook then when
it hands over to Word select insert merge field from the merge toolbar (see
the link at the bottom of the web page) and pick the Home_Phone field. You
don't have to link the data it is already linked. If you attempt to link the
data from Word, then you cancel the connection you have already made to
Outlook. This is explained in the article.

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




Cathleen McGuire wrote:
Hi Doug -- I read about that URL in a similar past post. It was not
helpful as there was zero mentioned about the merge problems
associated with the Home Phone field.

If you have the time and inclination, please review my explanation of
this problem again. I think I laid out in sufficient detail what the
problem is and why all the possible paths don't work.

If anyone has a concrete solution as to how to get the Outlook
Contacts Home Phone field to merge, I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks, Cathleen

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Initiate the mailmerge from Outlook.

See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm


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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Cathleen McGuire" wrote
in message ...
I am trying to do a mailmerge my Outlook Contacts into a Directory
so that I
can print the results and then physically paste them into my manual
address
book. (Office version 2002)

It's driving me up a wall, but Home Phone just will not materialize.
Every
other field value gets populated except for Home Phone.

I get to Step 4 ("Arrange Your Directory") and select the last
option, "More
Items ." to insert the field names into the master directory
document I'm creating. (On the Mail Merge tool bar, the "More
Items" icon is called "Insert Merge Fields")

While in the Insert Merge Fields window, one can select Address
Fields or Database
Fields. I don't understand the difference between either of those
options, but whatever. I try them both.

If I select the Address Fields option, there is a Home Phone field,
but as I
said, it doesn't populate when the merge is run. The Home Phone
post-merge values are left blank.

If I select the Database Fields options, there is no Home Phone
option. (Go
figure). So I click on "Match Fields" at the bottom of the window
in order to
"use the dropdown lists to choose the field from your database that
corresponds to the address information Mail Merge expects."
Whatever that means.

So I find the Home Phone field in the Match Fields options, but
(true to Microsoft form) the dropdown box says "not available."
Great!

So how do I do a merge of my Contacts database so that the
all-important Home Phone numbers appear? I've tried to do the Merge
both from within Outlooks Contacts as well as from within Word.
Both give me the same cockeyed
results as I've outlined above.

This is driving me crazy!!! Any and all help greatly appreciated.
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Cathleen McGuire