Mail merge only one category

[Breeze Hill]

It's Christmas time. We want to mail merge our contacts' name/address info
(from Outlook) that have the category "Holiday Cards" onto envelopes.
Everything works fine (formatting the envelopes), creating the data file,
addomg a little holiday image for the cornver of the envelope, etcetera) ...
EXCEPT we can't see a way to tell Word and Outlook to only use records with
that category Holiday Cards. We can filter the Outlook view to only show
holiday cards, but Mail Merge doesn't take the hint and pass along to the
Word template only the holiday card records. It would probably be simpler
just to manually check off the 150 names we want, but that would be admitting
defeat.

 

[Bob I]

Group by Category, then select all the contacts in that group(click on
first one, shift click on last one) NOW go to Tools, Mail Merge in
Outlook and pick "Only Selected Contacts"