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"Patrice" wrote in message
... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my
Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Did you start the mail merge from Outlook, after selected the contacts you want to merge? It sounds like you probably didn't. That's a critical part of the process.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Patrice" wrote in message ... Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must
somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you  for notknowing intuitively that after that you must dismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Patrice" wrote in message ... Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page
 However in the meantime see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after that you mustdismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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The extra steps for merging to labels from Outlook have now been added to
the original web page http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm which is uploading at this moment. I am not sure this is a bug so much as a failure to bring the merge process into line with the merge wizard now used in Word 2003. The Outlook merge dialog also still refers to Catalog merges - now called Directory merges. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Graham Mayor wrote: Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page However in the meantime see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after that you mustdismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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It stops everyone in their tracks who is trying to do their merge from
Outlook, chooses labels, then gets presented with this obsolete dialog box from which they cannot complete their merge. Not a bug. Just the poorest design imaginable. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The extra steps for merging to labels from Outlook have now been added to the original web page http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm which is uploading at this moment. I am not sure this is a bug so much as a failure to bring the merge process into line with the merge wizard now used in Word 2003. The Outlook merge dialog also still refers to Catalog merges - now called Directory merges. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Graham Mayor wrote: Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page However in the meantime see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after that you mustdismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
No argument there. Still the revisions on my web page should help
 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: It stops everyone in their tracks who is trying to do their merge from Outlook, chooses labels, then gets presented with this obsolete dialog box from which they cannot complete their merge. Not a bug. Just the poorest design imaginable. The extra steps for merging to labels from Outlook have now been added to the original web page http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm which is uploading at this moment. I am not sure this is a bug so much as a failure to bring the merge process into line with the merge wizard now used in Word 2003. The Outlook merge dialog also still refers to Catalog merges - now called Directory merges. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Graham Mayor wrote: Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page However in the meantime see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after thatyou must dismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. |
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Graham, your website was of partial use, but not completely. There
seems to have been a change in the last few couple weeks as I could do what I wanted before (using the helper), and now can't. http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f6d3ef075ff4e5 will show the step by step process I've done so far. Russ, dismissing the Helper then using the Mail Merge Toolbar as shown on Graham's site still doesn't give me what I need. For one thing, It merges all the records instead of just the ones I have filtered in Outlook. For another thing, I do not find a way to access the «Full_Name» and «Mailing_Address», being instead forced to use name components and saying which kind of address. Now what? I need some more steps added (and this is Office 2003). |
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Works perfectly here.
You'll need to provide a more accurate description of the steps you are using for anyone to be able to help. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "KathrynBassett" wrote in message ups.com... Graham, your website was of partial use, but not completely. There seems to have been a change in the last few couple weeks as I could do what I wanted before (using the helper), and now can't. http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f6d3ef075ff4e5 will show the step by step process I've done so far. Russ, dismissing the Helper then using the Mail Merge Toolbar as shown on Graham's site still doesn't give me what I need. For one thing, It merges all the records instead of just the ones I have filtered in Outlook. For another thing, I do not find a way to access the «Full_Name» and «Mailing_Address», being instead forced to use name components and saying which kind of address. Now what? I need some more steps added (and this is Office 2003). |
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You are not following the instructions. If you have filtered the list in
Outlook then that filtered list is transferred to Word (assuming you ticked the right boxes in the Outlook dialog). If you go that far then instead of accepting the data already attached to your merge document, you are adding a new data file again from Word. This is indicated on the web page. You must accept the data file already attached if you want the filtered records and the additional field names. The field names you get when merging from Outlook into Word are not the same as those you get when merging from Word with Outlook. Take another look at my web page illustrations 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 KathrynBassett wrote: Graham, your website was of partial use, but not completely. There seems to have been a change in the last few couple weeks as I could do what I wanted before (using the helper), and now can't. http://groups.google.com/group/micro...f6d3ef075ff4e5 will show the step by step process I've done so far. Russ, dismissing the Helper then using the Mail Merge Toolbar as shown on Graham's site still doesn't give me what I need. For one thing, It merges all the records instead of just the ones I have filtered in Outlook. For another thing, I do not find a way to access the «Full_Name» and «Mailing_Address», being instead forced to use name components and saying which kind of address. Now what? I need some more steps added (and this is Office 2003). |
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Graham, I have made a step by step, with screen captures, page so you
can see exactly what I've done, and posted it at http://www.bassett.net/storage/merge...rgeproblem.htm Hopefully, you can follow along there and see what my problems are (down toward bottom, in red), and tell me which step is causing the problems. Hopefully, Kathryn |
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We've both posted the instructions already.
Your first problem is step #8. As Graham said, since you've already selected your data source by starting the merge from Outlook, you cannot and must not try to select a data source again, which is exactly what you are doing in step #8. That's where you lose your filtered data source. As I posted, once you select your label type in the Mail Merge Helper, dismiss it entirely. Then use the Mail Merge Toolbar to complete your merge. There you will see the "Insert Merge Field" Button. Click it. Then select "Database Fields." There you will see all of the Outlook Contact Fields you will need to construct your merge, including derived fields such as "Full Name" and "Mailing Address" Nothing has changed in this merge process since Outlook 2003 was released. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "KathrynBassett" wrote in message oups.com... Graham, I have made a step by step, with screen captures, page so you can see exactly what I've done, and posted it at http://www.bassett.net/storage/merge...rgeproblem.htm Hopefully, you can follow along there and see what my problems are (down toward bottom, in red), and tell me which step is causing the problems. Hopefully, Kathryn |
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Yeah! That did it! I had dismissed the Helper as you indicated, but
then saw that part on Graham's page where it showed #8, and thought I had to do that. It made the time it took to make that step-by-step very much worth while. I will modify the web page so that it specifically tells what I did wrong, so that anyone coming upon this thread can refer to it. Graham, you are welcome to either link to the page, or take my screen captures for use on your page, to further clarify your page. And Russ, thanks for looking at it even though we have to agree to disagree about the other thread. |
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I've now revamped the page to be a tutorial.
http://www.bassett.net/storage/merge...rgeproblem.htm Please let me know if I've made any typos or not been clear on a step. |
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You mean where you thought I made a typographical error? Seems everyone
disagrees with you on that one Mail merges are the bane of the existence of both Word and Outlook MVP's. No version does it well and each version is so counterintuitive and so different in the steps required that most problems are next to impossible to unsnarl with the limited information that can be included in newsgroup posts. Want the bad news? It won't get any better in upcoming versions. It seems to me that Outlook and Word Developers do not know one another. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "KathrynBassett" wrote in message ps.com... Yeah! That did it! I had dismissed the Helper as you indicated, but then saw that part on Graham's page where it showed #8, and thought I had to do that. It made the time it took to make that step-by-step very much worth while. I will modify the web page so that it specifically tells what I did wrong, so that anyone coming upon this thread can refer to it. Graham, you are welcome to either link to the page, or take my screen captures for use on your page, to further clarify your page. And Russ, thanks for looking at it even though we have to agree to disagree about the other thread. |
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