email merges problem in 2003

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I upgraded to Outlook 2003 from XP and when I go to the files where I do
email merges from, the Outlook stalls and then comes up with a SQL server
path choice.

Never saw this before, so I tried in vain to point it back to my contacts
list from Outlook, no success at all.

What do I do to restore it to the way it was before I upgraded to 2003 from
XP?

Thanks,

Gordon

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you using Word 2003 as well?

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Since you didn't explain what steps you're following to perform the merge,
it's hard to know what, if anything, might need to be done.

 

[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi Sue,

The Outlook XP and Word XP worked just fine with email merges and has been
since it was Office 2000.

The Contacts list is the list that is used in the email merges.

It just stopped working after the upgrade.

Word 2003 is used, yes.

Gordon

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

But what are the exact steps you are using to conduct the merge? What is the
text of the error message you are seeing?

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Is Contacts referring to your Outlook Contacts folder or to a database
table?

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[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi Sue,

It refers to the Outlook Contacts....

Thx,

Gordon

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

To try to fix this, I'd make a copy of your existing merge document. Then,
start a merge from Outlook and use the merge document copy.

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[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi Sue!

Except I've got about 50 email merge files that I've set up since Office
2000.....

So, what I will do is start from scratch on my main file that I use the
most, get that up and running, then cut and paste to and from it to use the
others that I will need.

Take care, and thanks...

Gordon

 

[Allan]

Sue,
I have been reading about the Mail Merge to E-mail issues, and I need one
more piece of information, so I am adding my post here.

To get rid of the "allow access for 1 minute" message, when sending out a
mail merge, the answer was previously stated as "use HTML Format" to by pass
this.

I have saved a Word mail merge template as HTML and still get this. What
exactly was meant by "use HTML." How does one use HTML in this way? (My
FrontPage 2002 doesn't have a mail merge feature, either, that I saw)

(I am using Word 2000, and Outlook 2003).
I have Word 2003 but I don't use it because I don't want to upgrade my Adobe
Acrobat to 6, which would be needed...

Will Word 2000 do the "allow-access-message-less" mail merge to E-mail?

Allan

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

When you perform a Word mail merge to email, one of the questions asked by
the merge wizard is whether the format should be HTML, plain text, or
document attachment. Only HTML avoids the security prompts. We don't know
why, but we're glad to have it.

Mail merge requires matching Outlook and Word versions. If you have Outlook
2003, you need Word 2003.