I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a number of
occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact list from outlook.
When I try to use it now, instead of it showing the list of contacts for me
to choose my recipients, a popup window appears entitled 'data link
properties' inviting me to select or enter an Access database name. This
never happened in the past and I am at a loss to know what has caused the
problem or how to correct it. I am using Windows XP Home Edition with service
pack two and Microsoft Office Professional.

See 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


Surreycrow wrote:
I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a number of
occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact list from
outlook. When I try to use it now, instead of it showing the list of
contacts for me to choose my recipients, a popup window appears
entitled 'data link properties' inviting me to select or enter an
Access database name. This never happened in the past and I am at a
loss to know what has caused the problem or how to correct it. I am
using Windows XP Home Edition with service pack two and Microsoft
Office Professional.

I am most grateful for your help which does indeed allow me to complete my
mail merge using outlook contact lists by doing the mail merge from outlook;
thank you. I am however concerned that a change as occured in Word that
prevents me from using outlook contacts when doing a mail merge from Word
itself. I suspect it changed when the automatic update for office sp2 was
installed. I would like to be able to use the feature as before and I am
concerned other things may also have changed.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See 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


Surreycrow wrote:
I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a number of
occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact list from
outlook. When I try to use it now, instead of it showing the list of
contacts for me to choose my recipients, a popup window appears
entitled 'data link properties' inviting me to select or enter an
Access database name. This never happened in the past and I am at a
loss to know what has caused the problem or how to correct it. I am
using Windows XP Home Edition with service pack two and Microsoft
Office Professional.

[Mary J[_2_]]

Did you ever receive a response to this? I am able to merge in Outlook but i
am very concerned something is wrong with Word 2007 given it bombs out
whenever i try to merge directly from Word like i have been for YEARS. This
is so frustrating. Is it that you CAN'T merge from Word in Vista/Word 2007
now? If that's the case please someone say so. It used to be so easy.

"Surreycrow" wrote:

I am most grateful for your help which does indeed allow me to complete my
mail merge using outlook contact lists by doing the mail merge from outlook;
thank you. I am however concerned that a change as occured in Word that
prevents me from using outlook contacts when doing a mail merge from Word
itself. I suspect it changed when the automatic update for office sp2 was
installed. I would like to be able to use the feature as before and I am
concerned other things may also have changed.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See 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


Surreycrow wrote:
I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a number of
occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact list from
outlook. When I try to use it now, instead of it showing the list of
contacts for me to choose my recipients, a popup window appears
entitled 'data link properties' inviting me to select or enter an
Access database name. This never happened in the past and I am at a
loss to know what has caused the problem or how to correct it. I am
using Windows XP Home Edition with service pack two and Microsoft
Office Professional.

[Graham Mayor]

I cannot comment on the implications of Windows Vista as I don't use that,
but the ability to merge from Word using Outlook data is not limited by
Office 2007. However as you get far more control over the merge by
initiating from Outlook, starting from Outlook is much the better option.

In Windows 2003, the abilty to merge using Outlook from Word would be
impaired by the omission of the file SCHDMAP.DLL from Windows, but I don't
know if Vista uses this file or an equivalent that provides the same
function.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Mary J wrote:
Did you ever receive a response to this? I am able to merge in
Outlook but i am very concerned something is wrong with Word 2007
given it bombs out whenever i try to merge directly from Word like i
have been for YEARS. This is so frustrating. Is it that you CAN'T
merge from Word in Vista/Word 2007 now? If that's the case please
someone say so. It used to be so easy.

"Surreycrow" wrote:

I am most grateful for your help which does indeed allow me to
complete my mail merge using outlook contact lists by doing the mail
merge from outlook; thank you. I am however concerned that a change
as occured in Word that prevents me from using outlook contacts when
doing a mail merge from Word itself. I suspect it changed when the
automatic update for office sp2 was installed. I would like to be
able to use the feature as before and I am concerned other things
may also have changed.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See 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


Surreycrow wrote:
I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a
number of occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact
list from outlook. When I try to use it now, instead of it showing
the list of contacts for me to choose my recipients, a popup
window appears entitled 'data link properties' inviting me to
select or enter an Access database name. This never happened in
the past and I am at a loss to know what has caused the problem or
how to correct it. I am using Windows XP Home Edition with service
pack two and Microsoft Office Professional.

[Graham Mayor]

Just a thought - is Outlook your default e-mail application? If not, does it
work if you make it so?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
I cannot comment on the implications of Windows Vista as I don't use
that, but the ability to merge from Word using Outlook data is not
limited by Office 2007. However as you get far more control over the
merge by initiating from Outlook, starting from Outlook is much the
better option.
In Windows 2003, the abilty to merge using Outlook from Word would be
impaired by the omission of the file SCHDMAP.DLL from Windows, but I
don't know if Vista uses this file or an equivalent that provides the
same function.


Mary J wrote:
Did you ever receive a response to this? I am able to merge in
Outlook but i am very concerned something is wrong with Word 2007
given it bombs out whenever i try to merge directly from Word like i
have been for YEARS. This is so frustrating. Is it that you CAN'T
merge from Word in Vista/Word 2007 now? If that's the case please
someone say so. It used to be so easy.

"Surreycrow" wrote:

I am most grateful for your help which does indeed allow me to
complete my mail merge using outlook contact lists by doing the mail
merge from outlook; thank you. I am however concerned that a change
as occured in Word that prevents me from using outlook contacts when
doing a mail merge from Word itself. I suspect it changed when the
automatic update for office sp2 was installed. I would like to be
able to use the feature as before and I am concerned other things
may also have changed.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See 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


Surreycrow wrote:
I have used the mail merge feature in word successfully on a
number of occasions in the past. I have normally used my contact
list from outlook. When I try to use it now, instead of it showing
the list of contacts for me to choose my recipients, a popup
window appears entitled 'data link properties' inviting me to
select or enter an Access database name. This never happened in
the past and I am at a loss to know what has caused the problem or
how to correct it. I am using Windows XP Home Edition with service
pack two and Microsoft Office Professional.