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Exporting Windows Mail addresses to Word 2007
I don't use Outlook...is there anyway of making labels etc. thru Word 2007
from Windows Mail? I tried but always get errors? |
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Exporting Windows Mail addresses to Word 2007
Unfortunately I can't replicate all of your scenario (currently lacking Word
2007), but... a. you are likely to have problems if you have any double-quote characters (") in any of the data you are exporting. You /might/ have difficulty with long or multiline data but in the simple tests I have been able to do, it works OK. b. you may have to enable the facility in Word 2007 that lets you choose exactly how to connect to the data c. even that may not be enough... So... a. If you haven't found the export facility in Windows Mail, - select the contacts you want to export - look at the right-hand end of the menu at the top of the window for a chevron like - click on that and you should find the Export option - use the .csv format (I'm pretty sure that Word has no way of working with a set of .vcf files directly) - specify an output file in a folder near the top of your folder hiearchy (this may not be necessary but I'm playing safe here) b. Windows Mail exports to a .csv file using Unicode UTF-8 encoding. This is a difference from the old Outlook Express export, and it /may/ make a difference to the readability of the file in Word. If you have any commas in your data, Mail correctly wraps the affected fields in a pair of double-quote characters. However, if you have any double-quote characters, Mail does not double them up as it really should, so Word (and most other software that reads .csv files) will interpret a " in the data as an "end of field" mark, and will have difficulty dealing with the data after that. c. As far as I know, Windows Mail always exports all your contacts, even if you only select 1. So problems with the data in any of your contacts may affect the outcome. If you couldn't find the Export feature, maybe that will be enough. Otherwise, something must be going wrong when you're trying to use the exported data, so... a. what exactly is going wrong? b. do you see any of the following dialog boxes: - a dialog box that asks you to specify the character encoding of the data (it has a drop-down at the top right with a list of encoding types)? If so, ensure you select Unicode UTF-8 - a dialog box with a list of "field delimiters" and "record delimiters"? If so, ensure you select comma and Enter (I think) - a dialog box with a shortlist of delimiters (tab, comma, other) - pick "comma" and you'll probably have to do so again. c. or does the connection simply fail with no error message? A few things I would try if you're not getting anywhe a. fix any problems with double-quotes. If necessary, open the .csv in Notepad and either manually double-up double quotes /in the data/, or remove them, or remove the record that contains them b. only export the fields you need c. try either exporting a file with a .txt extension or if Mail insists on using .csv at the end, rename the file to .txt before trying to open it in Word d. try Microsoft checking Office Button|Word Options|Advanced|General|"Confirm File format conversion upon open" then go through the process of opening your data source again. Try each of the options presented in the additional dialog box. If you are only presented witth two choices (OLE DB and ODBC), check the box in that dialog and try the Text converter option (it should be presented if you use ..txt rather than .csv) e. if you have Excel or Access, try importing the .csv/.txt into a worksheet or table and use that as your data source Peter Jamieson "gregcols" wrote in message ... I don't use Outlook...is there anyway of making labels etc. thru Word 2007 from Windows Mail? I tried but always get errors? |
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