[PeterHS]

L.s,

Im working with outlook 2007 and Exchange on Small Business Server 2003.

I want to mail merge to letters in Word using contacts from Outlook. I set
the whole thing up using the mail-wizard.

When I use my own contact list there is no problem. When I select the
contact list I see all the wright fields (address, name, and so on). And I
can make nice letters.

But when I use the €œcentral contact list€� (which is in the public folder
list in Exchange) I get the wrong fields, it looks like the fields from mail
messages; priority, urgency, subject (onderwerp in Dutch). And by example;
the field subject is filled with the name from the contact person. A
workaround could be to use these fields, but many items are not in the list
(like address).

When I copy de contact list from central to my own box I can use it and get
the wright fields. It seems there is a problem using contacts from a public
folder.

Does anyone know this problem and how to fix or work around? I could copy
the contact list each time I have to merge, but I dont like that. Someone
will forget it and use old addresses.

Many thanks

Peter

[Graham Mayor]

Start the merge from Outlook - see
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



PeterHS wrote:
L.s,

I'm working with outlook 2007 and Exchange on Small Business Server
2003.

I want to mail merge to letters in Word using contacts from Outlook.
I set the whole thing up using the mail-wizard.

When I use my own contact list there is no problem. When I select the
contact list I see all the wright fields (address, name, and so on).
And I can make nice letters.

But when I use the "central contact list" (which is in the public
folder list in Exchange) I get the wrong fields, it looks like the
fields from mail messages; priority, urgency, subject (onderwerp in
Dutch). And by example; the field subject is filled with the name
from the contact person. A workaround could be to use these fields,
but many items are not in the list (like address).

When I copy de contact list from central to my own box I can use it
and get the wright fields. It seems there is a problem using contacts
from a public folder.

Does anyone know this problem and how to fix or work around? I could
copy the contact list each time I have to merge, but I don't like
that. Someone will forget it and use old addresses.

Many thanks

Peter

[PeterHS]

Thanks Graham,

That does the trick.

But i still think its a bug, it must work from Word also a think.

I ask myself why I always have to find bugs. Sure I like the puzzle but it
uses so mutch time.

Peter