merged from Outlook 2000, upgraded to 2003, merge documents don't

[John]

I used Office 2000 for several years and made extensive use of the mailmerge
feature from within Outlook 2000. I recently upgraded to Office 2003. My
Outlook contacts no longer merge into my Word documents now that I am using
Outlook 2003 and Word 2003. Do I have to recreate all of my Word merge docs
using Word 2003 in order to continue to merge from within Outlook? Example: A
typical process involved choosing a few Outlook contacts and merging them to
preset envelope merge docs in Word. Perhaps I am not doing this the best way.
Any ideas? Suggestions? Recreating those docs is not a gigantic problem.
There are only about 20 files.

 

[Graham Mayor]

What happens when you try?
See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
You may also find the general mail merge primer -
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm useful for
highlighting the changes from 2000 to 2003

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[John]

Actually, I just went ahead and recreated my merge documents in Word 2003.
Most of them needed attention anyway. Therefore, there is no problem anymore
and, of course, I can't recreate it to answer your question accurately. As I
recall, however, the process would simply hang. I would select my Outlook
contact(s), go to Merge to an existing document, select the document which
would then appear in the Outlook dialogue box. The document type would change
to 'envelope' or 'labels' or whatever. I always choose to merge to a New
Document rather than to the printer so I can review the doc but when I
clicked Merge (or OK or whatever it was), the process would cease. I think I
had to use the Task Manager to stop Outlook but the appropriate Word merge
doc would remain active in Word, without any merged data, of course. Again, I
solved the issue by recreating my Word merge docs but, of course, I remain
curious. I wouldn't spend a lot of time on this if I were you. Thanks for the
response.