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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts chosen
When I try to do a mail merge in Word 2007 I choose start mail merge, then
the step by step wizard. When I get to the part of choosing recipients, I choose select from Outlook contacts except nothing happens. It Just brings me to my desktop. What is going wrong? |
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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts chosen
Try starting the mailmerge from Outlook.
See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm That article was written before 2007, but it may still help -- 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 "cmglaser" wrote in message ... When I try to do a mail merge in Word 2007 I choose start mail merge, then the step by step wizard. When I get to the part of choosing recipients, I choose select from Outlook contacts except nothing happens. It Just brings me to my desktop. What is going wrong? |
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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts cho
Thank you for the help. I was able to do the mail merge starting from
Outlook, which was a big help however, what if I want to use a given template? For instance, have the contact info. merge directly into a fax template. Can I do that? Thanks again. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Try starting the mailmerge from Outlook. See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm That article was written before 2007, but it may still help -- 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 "cmglaser" wrote in message ... When I try to do a mail merge in Word 2007 I choose start mail merge, then the step by step wizard. When I get to the part of choosing recipients, I choose select from Outlook contacts except nothing happens. It Just brings me to my desktop. What is going wrong? |
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Hi ?B?Y21nbGFzZXI=?=,
Thank you for the help. I was able to do the mail merge starting from Outlook, which was a big help however, what if I want to use a given template? For instance, have the contact info. merge directly into a fax template. Can I do that? Read through that dialog box for Mail Merge in Outlook very carefully. The second section lets you choose an existing document as the starting point. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts cho
I do see where you can pick another document. The trouble is that my fax
template doesn't contain outlook contact merge fields and I don't know how to add them to the template (or do I have to do this each time I use the template). Maybe, I should back up a bit . . . I am a new user to Outlook w/ Business Contact Manager. I am evaluating it for our small company. We've been using ACT database software for 10 years and if you want to write a letter, fax, or email all you do is choose your customer and click write letter, write fax, etc (or choose a template) and it then opens Word with all the prefilled contact information. Is this something that can be done through Outlook w/ BCM? or is there an add-on product to do this with Outlook? I greatly appreciate any assistance. "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?Y21nbGFzZXI=?=, Thank you for the help. I was able to do the mail merge starting from Outlook, which was a big help however, what if I want to use a given template? For instance, have the contact info. merge directly into a fax template. Can I do that? Read through that dialog box for Mail Merge in Outlook very carefully. The second section lets you choose an existing document as the starting point. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts cho
Although written for Office 2003 - the principles shown at
http://www.gmayor.com/Macrobutton.htm for incorporating Outlook data in documents should still apply. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org cmglaser wrote: I do see where you can pick another document. The trouble is that my fax template doesn't contain outlook contact merge fields and I don't know how to add them to the template (or do I have to do this each time I use the template). Maybe, I should back up a bit . . . I am a new user to Outlook w/ Business Contact Manager. I am evaluating it for our small company. We've been using ACT database software for 10 years and if you want to write a letter, fax, or email all you do is choose your customer and click write letter, write fax, etc (or choose a template) and it then opens Word with all the prefilled contact information. Is this something that can be done through Outlook w/ BCM? or is there an add-on product to do this with Outlook? I greatly appreciate any assistance. "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?Y21nbGFzZXI=?=, Thank you for the help. I was able to do the mail merge starting from Outlook, which was a big help however, what if I want to use a given template? For instance, have the contact info. merge directly into a fax template. Can I do that? Read through that dialog box for Mail Merge in Outlook very carefully. The second section lets you choose an existing document as the starting point. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word 2007 mail merge goes to desktop when Outlook contacts cho
Hello,
I am having a similar problem. Fields like PR_POSTAL_ADDRESS and PR_STREET_ADDRESS do not exist anymore in Outlook 2007. Running my code on a machine with Outlook 2003 works fine, but on Outlook 2007 (using same exchange server) does not retrieve the fields mentioned above. I am using the Application.GetAddress function of Word VBA. This also can be verified with OutlookSpy (http://www.dimastr.com/outspy/). Has anyone found a solution for this? Is the GetAddress function depreciated with Word 2007? Any help is very appreciated. best regards, anders. |
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A quick experiment here suggests that these fields still work OK when
getting information from an Outlook Contact list. Some possibilities: a. Support may only be avaliable for certain types of address book. (For example, the PAB seems to have disappeared in OL2007) b. could the upgrade have changed some other aspect of your address book that your code relies on, e.g. changed the "Show names by" from "First Last" to "File As" (the sort of stuff you can change in your Outlook Profile" Other than that, nothing else springs to mind right now. But can you tell a. whether your GetAddress calls are getting data for the right people b. whether /any/ of the "PR_" names work? Peter Jamieson wrote in message ups.com... Hello, I am having a similar problem. Fields like PR_POSTAL_ADDRESS and PR_STREET_ADDRESS do not exist anymore in Outlook 2007. Running my code on a machine with Outlook 2003 works fine, but on Outlook 2007 (using same exchange server) does not retrieve the fields mentioned above. I am using the Application.GetAddress function of Word VBA. This also can be verified with OutlookSpy (http://www.dimastr.com/outspy/). Has anyone found a solution for this? Is the GetAddress function depreciated with Word 2007? Any help is very appreciated. best regards, anders. |
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