An Field of Contacts not usable with MS Word merge

[dilettante]

I woul like to send some letters using MS Word and its function for merging
the addresses of Outlook Contacts.
When I choose Contacts as data source everything works well out of ........
.... the field "Name" in the select mask is empty, seaching for a name I
find the contact only in the field "show contact as", if I use "Contacts" to
put a single address in a letter (without the merge procedure) it works.
Someaone has a idea of what could be wrong?
Thank you

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

For best results, display your contacts folder in Outlook and use the Tools | Mail Merge command there to start the merge.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[dilettante]

Thank you, it works but I do not find the possibility I have in Word of
choosing in advcance the contacts I want to merge.
Best regards

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes you do. See your other post.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thank you, it works but I do not find the possibility I have in Word of
choosing in advcance the contacts I want to merge.
Best regards

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Don't choose them in Word. Choose them in Outlook. The filtering and grouping in Outlook is much better than that in Word anyway.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Thank you, it works but I do not find the possibility I have in Word of
choosing in advcance the contacts I want to merge.
Best regards