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Requirement for address book contact for addressing an envelope?
I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an
Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |
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That's correct. Since Outlook is an email program, you must have an email
address for the contact to appear in the address book. I fake email addresses in those that don't have one. Like this: . It works. "ajsandbergjr" wrote: I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |
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Thanks, Mary. It works. However, it seems like a flaky work around to
transfer an address from an address book to an envelope to send through the U.S. Postal System and to the heading of a document written in WORD. I'm disappointed with Microsoft that they haven't provided a smoother way to use an Address Book with WORD. ajsandbergjr "Mary" wrote: That's correct. Since Outlook is an email program, you must have an email address for the contact to appear in the address book. I fake email addresses in those that don't have one. Like this: . It works. "ajsandbergjr" wrote: I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |
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This shouldn't be necessary. Relatively few of my Outlook contacts have
e-mail addresses and they all show up quite happily in Word. What is probably required here are to set Outlook as the default e-mail application (Windows control panel internet options programs), and to ensure that the Contacts list containing the addresses has its property flagged as an Outlook Address Book, but check with the Outlook newsgroup if this doesn't cut it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary wrote: That's correct. Since Outlook is an email program, you must have an email address for the contact to appear in the address book. I fake email addresses in those that don't have one. Like this: . It works. "ajsandbergjr" wrote: I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |
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I don't think you even have to have Outlook selected as the default mail
client. I haven't experimented with this much since I don't use the address book, but it seems to me that I've added contacts in Outlook and had them show up in Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This shouldn't be necessary. Relatively few of my Outlook contacts have e-mail addresses and they all show up quite happily in Word. What is probably required here are to set Outlook as the default e-mail application (Windows control panel internet options programs), and to ensure that the Contacts list containing the addresses has its property flagged as an Outlook Address Book, but check with the Outlook newsgroup if this doesn't cut it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary wrote: That's correct. Since Outlook is an email program, you must have an email address for the contact to appear in the address book. I fake email addresses in those that don't have one. Like this: . It works. "ajsandbergjr" wrote: I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |
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I have found an article on Microsoft's support site that deals with an
identical problem for an earlier version of Office/OUTLOOK/WORD: "OL: Outlook Address Book Does Not Display All the Contacts in Word", Article ID 301447 (Q301447). The symptoms we "only contacts that have an e-mail address or fax number appear". However, the resolution apparently isn't applicable to the newr version of Outlook/Word. I could not find the registry key listed. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I don't think you even have to have Outlook selected as the default mail client. I haven't experimented with this much since I don't use the address book, but it seems to me that I've added contacts in Outlook and had them show up in Word. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This shouldn't be necessary. Relatively few of my Outlook contacts have e-mail addresses and they all show up quite happily in Word. What is probably required here are to set Outlook as the default e-mail application (Windows control panel internet options programs), and to ensure that the Contacts list containing the addresses has its property flagged as an Outlook Address Book, but check with the Outlook newsgroup if this doesn't cut it. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mary wrote: That's correct. Since Outlook is an email program, you must have an email address for the contact to appear in the address book. I fake email addresses in those that don't have one. Like this: . It works. "ajsandbergjr" wrote: I have transferred my address book contacts from WordPerfect 2002 to an Outlook address book but not all are available when I try to insert them into an address for an envelope. It appears that if the contacts are not associated with an email address, they do not show up when I click on the address book to address an envelope or address a letter. |