I'll start off saying I have never had anything but problem with Word 2002
mail merge using my Outlook 2002 contact list.

For awhile, it has been quasi working - at least I was able to select names
from my contact folder and insert them into my mailmerge document. Now,
however, I have lost the connection to Outlook and, when I try to
re-establish the connection using the Mailmerge wizard I get the error
"Unable to obtain list of tables from datasource". I am on a single user
machine with Outlook always running.

I am hoping it is something obvious that I might be doing that causes
problems.

Carl

Initiate the Mailmerge from Outlook.

See the "Mailmerge for Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at:
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Carl" wrote in message
...
I'll start off saying I have never had anything but problem with Word
2002
mail merge using my Outlook 2002 contact list.

For awhile, it has been quasi working - at least I was able to select
names
from my contact folder and insert them into my mailmerge document. Now,
however, I have lost the connection to Outlook and, when I try to
re-establish the connection using the Mailmerge wizard I get the error
"Unable to obtain list of tables from datasource". I am on a single user
machine with Outlook always running.

I am hoping it is something obvious that I might be doing that causes
problems.

Carl