Merge from Office Address Book Inserting 2 instead of 1 Item(s)

[Len Ford]

Hi,

I'm having problems with the latest Office version for OS X and merge
documents. I create a new document. Select Merge Document. I tell
the palette that I want Form Letters, Data Source is Office Address
Book, and then I start selecting items. These are the items I'm
adding:

Title
FirstName
LastName
Company
Address (What's the difference between Address & Street?)
City
State
Zip

When I go to view or print preview on a lot of my records, I'll get
two company names, two addresses, two sets of city, state, zip, and if
there's no title for a given contact there's a space (should printing
slide if there's nothing to print?) I'm also not getting home street
addresses, only business. I'd like to be able to select either, or,
or both and have Word adjust accordingly (for example, I'm sending out
a mass mailer that would go to residential and business customers. On
most contacts I might have only one set or the other. I can sort the
business people out and tell Word to only supply the business address.
Same situation for the residential. Can this be done?)

There's no indication that I'm bringing over both sets of addresses
(home and business), and for the life of me I can't figure out why I'm
getting two company names when it's only listed ONCE in the contact
database!!!

I've been able to reproduce this problem with every single document
I've created. What exactly is the criteria for using merge using the
Office Address Book? The online help isn't helping out here.

TIA

Len

 

[L. D. Ford]

Hm,

No takers? Or, is there a link I can be directed to that explains the
Office Address book setup with Word better for me?

TIA

Len