Married couples with seperate contact entries in a mail merge

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Lippy Pantaloons

I am using Outlook mail merge to create holiday mailing labels. I have
seperate Outlook Contact entries for my married friends, one for the husband
and one for the wife, since they have unique cell phone and e-mail data.
However, I only need to generate one mailing label for the couple since they
live together.

How do I do this? A standard mail merge will generate a lable for each
member of the couple and not a single lable for 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith'

Can I tweak the merge?

Can I organize couples contacts differently?

Thanks!
 
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Lippy Pantaloons

The problem is that if I just select the husband, the label reads "John Doe"
off his Outlook Contact file, not "John and Jane Doe" as the card should read.

No easy answer :(
 
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Trevor B. Russell

You could create a third entry with just both names and the address in. Add
a category of 'Envelopes' or something like that and just add those addreses
to this category that you need.

Haven't tried it, but just thought it might work as I was reading the
conversation.
 
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Lippy Pantaloons

Good idea - by keeping them in a seperate folder it should help.

I was also thinking of creating a custom field called "Holiday Mailier' and
put 'Mr. and Mrs. Jane Doe' in the field. Then create a custom mail merge
that uses that field instead of contact name for the envelope.

Ga! Wish this was easy :)
 

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