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Importing Corel Address Book (.abx) Merge Data
Are the steps listed anywhere about using Corel's Address Book data (.abx
files) as the data source for printing labels in Word 2000? I can't get it to work, after many attempts/methods. Thanks. |
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Importing Corel Address Book (.abx) Merge Data
Based on the information in the article at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=196093 an .abx file is a comma separated values file. What methods have you tried to use? I don't know if such files contain a header row with the field names in a format that is suitable for use as the mailmerge fields, but if not, you should be able to open it with Wordpad and add such a row. All that you may have to do is change the files of type setting when you go to attach the data souce to All Files (*.*) so that the .abx extension file is displayed. Alternatively, change the extension of the file to .txt and select the Text files type in the dialog. -- 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 "FM Engineer" wrote in message ... Are the steps listed anywhere about using Corel's Address Book data (.abx files) as the data source for printing labels in Word 2000? I can't get it to work, after many attempts/methods. Thanks. |
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Importing Corel Address Book (.abx) Merge Data
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
What methods have you tried to use? The "Merge Wizard." I can get to and display the .abx data filename, and double-clicking on selects it as the data source. But when I try to merge, although it seems to be reading the abx file, at the end of the merge process I get empty labels. |
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Importing Corel Address Book (.abx) Merge Data
See the article "Mailmerge Labels with Word XP" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- 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 "FM Engineer" wrote in message ... "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: What methods have you tried to use? The "Merge Wizard." I can get to and display the .abx data filename, and double-clicking on selects it as the data source. But when I try to merge, although it seems to be reading the abx file, at the end of the merge process I get empty labels. |
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