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How do I access a database in Outlook Express for mail merge
I've created a database in Microsoft Outlook, but when using Microsoft Office
Word and setting up a mailmerge document I cannot access the database in Outlook. I use Outlook Express for my daily emails. Will this cause a problem? Its just saying it can't access the database and can't find it, but when I go back to Microsoft Outlook it's all the-( |
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How do I access a database in Outlook Express for mail merge
Word cannot directly use an Outlook Express address list. You can however
export the address list from Outlook Express into a text file (comma delimited) and use that as a mail merge data source. -- 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 "Tiddles" wrote in message ... I've created a database in Microsoft Outlook, but when using Microsoft Office Word and setting up a mailmerge document I cannot access the database in Outlook. I use Outlook Express for my daily emails. Will this cause a problem? Its just saying it can't access the database and can't find it, but when I go back to Microsoft Outlook it's all the-( |
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How do I access a database in Outlook Express for mail merge
To clarify, Word will not see your Outlook Contacts List unless you set
Outlook as your default Windows e-mail application. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Tiddles wrote: I've created a database in Microsoft Outlook, but when using Microsoft Office Word and setting up a mailmerge document I cannot access the database in Outlook. I use Outlook Express for my daily emails. Will this cause a problem? Its just saying it can't access the database and can't find it, but when I go back to Microsoft Outlook it's all the-( |
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How do I access a database in Outlook Express for mail merge
What kind of database have you set up in Outlook? Is it a list of contacts,
or based on Contacts items? Or have you created an Outlook forms application that stores user-defined data? If it is a list of contacts, Graham's reply should provide the necessary pointers. Otherwise, you will probably have to find a way to export the data into a format that Word can use as a data source - if you have an Outlook view that can display your data in a tabular format, you can do a lot worse than select the data in Outlook, Edit|Copy, then Edit|Paste into, e.g. Excel. Peter Jamieson "Tiddles" wrote in message ... I've created a database in Microsoft Outlook, but when using Microsoft Office Word and setting up a mailmerge document I cannot access the database in Outlook. I use Outlook Express for my daily emails. Will this cause a problem? Its just saying it can't access the database and can't find it, but when I go back to Microsoft Outlook it's all the-( |
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