You may get a better response in an Outlook group, but here we'll probably
need more info. to helpon this one.
When doing a mail merge the default location for contacts
is my local address book. I would like to change that to
an address book that is on our companies server.
First, I doubt if you will be able to change the /default/ address book even
if the other problems you mention are overcome.
But
a. are you using Outlook? and is your "companies server" an Exchange server?
b. which version of Word and Outlook?
When
you browse to that location
Is this when you are trying to connect to the data source, or when you're
doing something from within Outlook?
the file is showing up as
individual contacts. Not an address book.
Not sure what you mean by this - are you saying that at the point you are
expecting to select a folder from a list, you are actually being presented
with a lot of individual contacts to select from? (Could you actually be
looking at a completely different dialog box?)
Finally, if you are using Outlook and Word 2000 or later, it can be easier
to initiate mail merges by selecting a contacts folder and starting from
there using Outlook Tools|Mail Merge
