Address book help

[Dave Horoschak]

I just installed MS Office 2003 and am having problems with the address
book in Word for mail merge and evelopes/labels. I would like to
maintain an address book since I frequently print envelopes. However,
it seems like Word wants to force me to set Outlook as my default mail
application, just so that I can have an address book. It doesn't make
any sense. I currently use Outlook Express, which is incompatible w/
Word, and do not plan to change e-mail applications. I have no problem
using Outlook to manage my addresses, I just don't want to set it as
default. There must be a way to use the address book w/o making it default.

Please tell me that there's a way to have an address book in Word
without changing default e-mail applications.
- Dave

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Export your address book as a (comma separated values) text file. Save that
as an Excel file. Use that to do your mail merge.

 

[Dave Horoschak]

Sorry - I should have been more explicit. I don't have an address book.
I just want to use something to save addresses that I frequently send
mail to. I understand that I could keep these in an Excel file and
export as a CSV, but it doesn't make much sense to do that every time I
want to print an envelope. And I don't think that would work for
addressing envelopes.

Is there another way? Can I use the Oulook address book without setting
it as my default mail client?
- Dave

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

If you have Excel, you don't have to export it to a .csv - just use the .xls
file.