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I have Word 2002 with Outlook 2003. When I try to start mail merge from
Word, I receive the message that it is unable to obtain a list of tables from
data source. When I try to initiate Mail Merge from Outlook, I get the error
that I must install the version of Word compatible with my version of Outlook.

Is this correct - and if so, how dumb is that! Is there a workaround short
of exporting the contacts to Excel?

Both Word and Outlook need to convert the Outlook data to a delimited text
format; in the one case as a file in memory, in the other a file is written to
disk. In addition Outlook has to automate Word, and version 2002 is not the same
as version 2003. In both directions. So, in answer to your question, yes, you
will need to first manually export the Outlook 2003 data to another file format
before you merge to it using Word 2002.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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