[lilkel31]

I'm sorry, can someone explain how I do that? Is there a simple merge type
feature in Excel too. I'm an experienced Word/Excel/Office user, but I've
never gone from Outlook to Excel then to Word. (I used to have my address in
an Access database that I exported from before switching over to 2007.) Is
this error message I'm receiving a glitch that is in need of a workaround, or
is there something I'm not doing properly that I can fix in order to get my
contacts directly from Outlook to Excel without a workaround?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

A work around would be to export the contact list from Outlook to Excel.

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"lilkel31" wrote in message
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Hi! I am trying to create mailing labels in Word 2007 using my Outlook
2007
contacts. If I go into Outlook 2007 and hit the mail merge feature, after
it
launches Word and I "setup" the document as it tells me to, the page is
blank
and does nothing. If I start out in Word using the mail merge feature, I
get
the document set up and then hit the "choose recipients" option and select
my
Outlook contacts and get the following error message:
"Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot
fulfill the messaging request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and
set
it as the default mail client."

Now, I use Outlook Express for my email, but for the purpose of making
these
labels, I went into Outlook and went to Tools-Options-Other and put a
checkmark in the box that says make outlook the default program for email,
contacts and calendar. This didn't help, I still got the same message
when
trying to merge the list.
Is there something I'm doing wrong with the mail merge, or is there some
way
to get this to work out?