Hi Diane,
I have been using Eudora since about 1993 before Outlook or even
Windows
was
thought about (yes using DOS 3.1) and still prefer it as an email
client,
much better than Outlook or Outlook Express in my opinion.
Outlook has worked well for what I use it for so far and never had any
reason to change to Excel which would require another learning curve as
I
have never become proficient with it but might give it some thought.
Regards, Bob
:
Why are you using Outlook if you prefer Eudora? Of all the mail
clients,
its
one of the worst for not playing nice with Outlook and you should
choose
one
or the other.
if you are just using Outlook for organizing the membership lists,
Excel
or
Access is a better option and either works as a data source for mail
merge.
(I tell people to use excel if under 1000 records unless they are
familiar
with Access.) Many years ago I designed a workbook for a club for
their
membership list - it included a field for current/expired membership
and
a
filter to hide the expired members. It worked quite well and last I
knew,
they are still using it. Too bad I don't know a copy of it...
--
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Hi Russ,
Actually I just counted them and have 23. The reason for this is
because I
have a folder for just my personal Contacts and I am Sec./Treas for
a
club
with about 225 members and have afolder for current members and
separate
folders for the previous years where past members have not renewed.
I
am
not
new at using Outlook and over the past 6 years I have never
encountered
a
problem with new additions to my Contacts folders not appearing in
Word
when
creating mailing labels or addressing individual envelopes.
I should also mention that I do have another newer problem that
could
be
assoiated with this Outlook Contact problem. As I use Eudora 7.1 as
my
email
client, I have always had to go into IE, Tools (on the right),
Internet
Options, Programs, and change my email client to Outlook to be able
to
view
the Contacts in Word. Recently when I do this, IE 98% of the time,
freezes
(program not responding) and have to do a CTRL-ALT-DEL to terminate
the
program. However, the Contacts do appear in Word but without the new
Contacts
showing in the list. Could nthis be related?
It is definitely a problem only on this PC because if I backup my
Outlook
Contacts to a .pst file and import this file into an empty Contacts
folder
on
my laptop, all Contacts are there, new ones included.
Hope this information helps. Thanks, Bob
:
You have 11 Contact Folders? Do all 11 appear in the address book
view?
Are
you certain you are adding Contacts to the same folder you are
viewing?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Russ, It is Outook 2007 all updated (12.0.6316.5000) SP1 MSO
(12.0.6320.5000)
Part of MS Office Standard 2007
Word 2007 (12.0.6311.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6320.5000)
Part of MS Office Standard 2007
In My Contacts I have Contacts folder plus about 10 others, all
selected
to
show folder in Outlook Address Book (in Properties). Three have
over
150
Contacts, one with 227 and remainder with about 50 in each.
Hope this helps.
Thanks, Bob
:
Provide some information that would permit someone to help.
State
your
Word
version. State how you configured your Outlook Address Book so
that
its
information would appear in Word. Verify that you have only one
Contacts
Folder in Outlook.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
message
This just started in the past month, new Contacts added in
Outlook
2007
are
not appearing in Word when creating labels or using the
Address
Envelope
functions selecting Recipients from the Outlook Contacts. The
older
ones
are
there but the new additions do not appear. How can I correct
this?
Thanks, Bob
