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I have used the Outlook 2003 contacts and/or address book entries to address
and then print individual envelopes in Word 2003 via "ToolsLetters and MailingsEnvelopes and Labels..." for years. Just recently this technique fails to actually insert the desired address into an "envelope." Up until the moment that I click on the desired address within the "Contacts" file (while both and "Outlook Address Book" and a "Personal Address Book" appear under Word's "Show Names from the:" dropdown, for some reason they display no names) everything seems to be working. Its just that the desired address is NOT inserted into the "Delivery address:" field of the "Envelopes and Labels" dialog. I did disable some "unneeded" XP services via "services.msc", which may or may not have anything to do with my problem. Software environment includes following: Outlook 2003 Word 2003 XP Professional w/ SP2 Current Microsoft updates (Automatic Updates up and running) ClearContext (an Outlook Plug-in) OfficeCalendar (software to allow sharing contacts and calendars across the internet) - Peter Sale USA |
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I did disable some "unneeded" XP services via "services.msc", which may or
may not have anything to do with my problem. I suppose the obvious thing to do is try re-enabling them, perhaps successively until the problem is fixed, or you discover it has nothing to do with the services. However, when I look at my list of Services I can't see any that would obviously affect this without affecting a lot of other stuff as well - someone in one of the Outlook groups is likely to know better. Can you insert address data directly into Word from the AddressBook icon? i.e. is it just in the Envelopes dialog box that it does not work? (while both and "Outlook Address Book" and a "Personal Address Book" appear under Word's "Show Names from the:" dropdown, for some reason they display no names) The "Outlook Address Book" does not allow "top level" addresses, but just contains those folders in Outlook which you specify (e.e.g in the Folder's Properties dialog box, Outlook Address Book tab. The "Personal Address Book" is another address book "service" that previous versions of Outlook and/or the old Exchange client came with (I forget exactly when these services came and went). It's probably empty because it's a separate "book" and you haven't put anything in it :-) It doesn't actually have to be installed for either Outlook or Word to work properly. I suppose there could be some reason why it needs to be there on your system, and it probably isn't doing any harm, but if you really want to get rid of it I'd create a Windows Restore point, then go into Outlook Tools|Email Accounts, view or change existing directories or address books, select it, click "Change..." just to see if there's any info. there that might make you keep it, then remove it. Peter Jamieson "psale" wrote in message ... I have used the Outlook 2003 contacts and/or address book entries to address and then print individual envelopes in Word 2003 via "ToolsLetters and MailingsEnvelopes and Labels..." for years. Just recently this technique fails to actually insert the desired address into an "envelope." Up until the moment that I click on the desired address within the "Contacts" file (while both and "Outlook Address Book" and a "Personal Address Book" appear under Word's "Show Names from the:" dropdown, for some reason they display no names) everything seems to be working. Its just that the desired address is NOT inserted into the "Delivery address:" field of the "Envelopes and Labels" dialog. I did disable some "unneeded" XP services via "services.msc", which may or may not have anything to do with my problem. Software environment includes following: Outlook 2003 Word 2003 XP Professional w/ SP2 Current Microsoft updates (Automatic Updates up and running) ClearContext (an Outlook Plug-in) OfficeCalendar (software to allow sharing contacts and calendars across the internet) - Peter Sale USA |
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"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
Can you insert address data directly into Word from the AddressBook icon? i.e. is it just in the Envelopes dialog box that it does not work? I am unable to locate such an icon, except for the one that appears within Word's "ToolsLetters and MailingsEnvelopes and Labels..." Might you know which "Toolbar" I need to activate in Word to cause that icon to appear? The "Outlook Address Book" does not allow "top level" addresses, but just contains those folders in Outlook which you specify (e.g in the Folder's Properties dialog box, Outlook Address Book tab. The "Personal Address Book" is another address book "service" that previous versions of Outlook and/or the old Exchange client came with (I forget exactly when these services came and went). It's probably empty because it's a separate "book" and you haven't put anything in it :-) It doesn't actually have to be installed for either Outlook or Word to work properly. I suppose there could be some reason why it needs to be there on your system, and it probably isn't doing any harm, but if you really want to get rid of it I'd create a Windows Restore point, then go into Outlook Tools|Email Accounts, view or change existing directories or address books, select it, click "Change..." just to see if there's any info. there that might make you keep it, then remove it. I only today added those two address books to Outlook 2003 in the vain hope that they would become populated with the contents of my Outlook Contacts, and I could then insert an address from one of them into an envelope. Sounds like I can safely delete (remove) both of them via Outlook and/or the XP Control Panel? - Peter Sale USA |
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I am unable to locate such an icon, except for the one that appears within
Word's "ToolsLetters and MailingsEnvelopes and Labels..." Might you know which "Toolbar" I need to activate in Word to cause that icon to appear? Go to Tools|Customize|Commands, select Category "All Commands", locate InsertAddress in the "Commands" column (it's in alpha sequence) and drag it to a menu or toolbar. I only today added those two address books to Outlook 2003 in the vain hope that they would become populated with the contents of my Outlook Contacts, Well, I don't think you will be able to do without the Outlook Address Book, because I don't think there's another way to get at your contact data via the address insertion function. I'm wondering whether adding the address book later (when you already had contacts) may have contributed to the problem. Have you added any addresses since you set up the Outlook Address Book? Peter Jamieson "psale" wrote in message ... "Peter Jamieson" wrote: Can you insert address data directly into Word from the AddressBook icon? i.e. is it just in the Envelopes dialog box that it does not work? I am unable to locate such an icon, except for the one that appears within Word's "ToolsLetters and MailingsEnvelopes and Labels..." Might you know which "Toolbar" I need to activate in Word to cause that icon to appear? The "Outlook Address Book" does not allow "top level" addresses, but just contains those folders in Outlook which you specify (e.g in the Folder's Properties dialog box, Outlook Address Book tab. The "Personal Address Book" is another address book "service" that previous versions of Outlook and/or the old Exchange client came with (I forget exactly when these services came and went). It's probably empty because it's a separate "book" and you haven't put anything in it :-) It doesn't actually have to be installed for either Outlook or Word to work properly. I suppose there could be some reason why it needs to be there on your system, and it probably isn't doing any harm, but if you really want to get rid of it I'd create a Windows Restore point, then go into Outlook Tools|Email Accounts, view or change existing directories or address books, select it, click "Change..." just to see if there's any info. there that might make you keep it, then remove it. I only today added those two address books to Outlook 2003 in the vain hope that they would become populated with the contents of my Outlook Contacts, and I could then insert an address from one of them into an envelope. Sounds like I can safely delete (remove) both of them via Outlook and/or the XP Control Panel? - Peter Sale USA |
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Word 2003 Envelopes and Labels fails to insert address into en
I finally tried to insert text directly for Word 2003's "Insert Address" icon. Although I found a valid address within Contacts, nothing whatever appears in the otherwise blank Word document. I added a brand new entery to my Outlook 2003 Contacts, then attempted to "insert" the address for that brand new entry into an otherwise blank document. Still no joy. Any other hints or suggestions are appreciated? - Peter Sale USA |
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