Office Professional 2000 Premium included a great program on Disc#2 called
Direct Mail Manager (part of Small Business Tools for Office 2000). The
program, certified by the US Post Office would run your entire database
(Access, Outlook, etc.) near the final step of "Mail Merge". In seconds it
would list all data that contained incorrect or missing information (wrong
street address, zip, name) and also offer corrections.

The last update from Microsoft was 12/16/1999. Question: if I locate my old
Office 2000 disc#2 and reinstall....will the program still run and has it
continued to be updated yearly with the USPS? Or am I correct to assume that
Microsoft discontinued both the product and support and we must purchase a
new program from Stamps.Com? If so, is there any free-ware or other
companies that offer address correction for Office/Word Professional 2003
that work with Mail Merge.

thanks so much in advance for any update on this!

To get a reliable answer to this question you should probably contact
Microsoft Customer Support - most of the people who answer questions in here
do not work for Microsoft.

I don't use DMM, but as far as I am aware DMM would probably still
/function/ with Office 2000 if you re-installed it. I suspect it would
function incorrectly in some ways. It doesn't appear to have been kept up to
date. There are some old articles in Microsoft's Knowledgebase (
http://support.microsoft.com ) which say that an enhanced version of this
package was available from Envelope Manager Software - see
http://www.envelopemanager.com/ but I have no idea whether they still make
that product or sell something different that does a similar job - and there
are doubtless plenty of other vendors out there with similar products.

Peter Jamieson

"max3002" wrote in message
...
Office Professional 2000 Premium included a great program on Disc#2 called
Direct Mail Manager (part of Small Business Tools for Office 2000). The
program, certified by the US Post Office would run your entire database
(Access, Outlook, etc.) near the final step of "Mail Merge". In seconds it
would list all data that contained incorrect or missing information (wrong
street address, zip, name) and also offer corrections.

The last update from Microsoft was 12/16/1999. Question: if I locate my
old
Office 2000 disc#2 and reinstall....will the program still run and has it
continued to be updated yearly with the USPS? Or am I correct to assume
that
Microsoft discontinued both the product and support and we must purchase a
new program from Stamps.Com? If so, is there any free-ware or other
companies that offer address correction for Office/Word Professional 2003
that work with Mail Merge.

thanks so much in advance for any update on this!

Peter, thank you for the reply.........I'll check out the links

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

To get a reliable answer to this question you should probably contact
Microsoft Customer Support - most of the people who answer questions in here
do not work for Microsoft.

I don't use DMM, but as far as I am aware DMM would probably still
/function/ with Office 2000 if you re-installed it. I suspect it would
function incorrectly in some ways. It doesn't appear to have been kept up to
date. There are some old articles in Microsoft's Knowledgebase (
http://support.microsoft.com ) which say that an enhanced version of this
package was available from Envelope Manager Software - see
http://www.envelopemanager.com/ but I have no idea whether they still make
that product or sell something different that does a similar job - and there
are doubtless plenty of other vendors out there with similar products.

Peter Jamieson

"max3002" wrote in message
...
Office Professional 2000 Premium included a great program on Disc#2 called
Direct Mail Manager (part of Small Business Tools for Office 2000). The
program, certified by the US Post Office would run your entire database
(Access, Outlook, etc.) near the final step of "Mail Merge". In seconds it
would list all data that contained incorrect or missing information (wrong
street address, zip, name) and also offer corrections.

The last update from Microsoft was 12/16/1999. Question: if I locate my
old
Office 2000 disc#2 and reinstall....will the program still run and has it
continued to be updated yearly with the USPS? Or am I correct to assume
that
Microsoft discontinued both the product and support and we must purchase a
new program from Stamps.Com? If so, is there any free-ware or other
companies that offer address correction for Office/Word Professional 2003
that work with Mail Merge.

thanks so much in advance for any update on this!