Merge Address book (.wab file) into word template

[DMD2060]

I have completed a transmittal template for our office and am trying to
have the ability to click in a box that would direct me to our address
book we have set up. I want to have the ability to pick a persons name
and have all their information (address, city, state, etc.) to fill in
automatically. Rather than typing all the information each time. Is
their any way to accomplish this? I am assuming mail merge is the way
to do this but dont know how.......any help would be greatly
appriciated. Thanks

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Unfortunately, neither of the methods available in Word for getting address
data (Word's Insert Address feature, and mail merge) can get data /directly/
from the Outlook Express address book (WAB). So as far as I know the only
way to do this is to keep the OE WAB open and either
a. drag-drop the entry from the address book, then remove all the stuff you
do not want, or
b.select the entry you want, export it to a delimited text file, then use
that file as the data source for your merge. There are more details at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;211206

Neither of those is a simple process, but if you have to use .wab I suppose
(b) is probably the better option. If you happen to have OE and Outlook 98
or Outlook 2000 set up in "Internet" mode with a shared address book, you
/may/ be able to get the addresses via another route but it doesn't sound
from your description as if the full Outlook is in the picture at all.