Outlook 2000 & Office XP mail merge w/contacts

[Lauren]

I have Word XP & Outlook 2000. Trying to do a mail merge
to generate address labels for xmas cards. Word doesn't
seem to want to recognize that I have a contact list in
Outlook to use. Any ideas? I've tried both starting
from Word and starting from Outlook; neither works.

I should mention that I mainly use Novell Groupwise.
Outlook 2000 I got with my pda and I use it only to store
contacts and POP3 email.

TIA

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

You cannot mix the versions of Outlook and Word when doing a mail merge.
You'd need to either upgrade Outlook to 2002 or downgrade Word to 2000 for
it to work.

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[Guest]

What are my options (read: free options) for printing
lables from my address book? Office XP (Word,Excel,Ppt,
Access, but not Outlook since we use Groupwise) is
provided by work, so I can't downgrade to Word2000, and I
don't have the budget to upgrade Outlook to 2002
personally. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Laura

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

You could export your Contact data to Excel and then use that as the data
file for a Word mail merge...

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[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

....and note that even though "mail" would not really be involved here, Word
still calls this function "Mail Merge"

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[Lauren]

Thanks for your help. I found that OpenOffice 1.1 will
accept the Outlook address book as a data source, so I
ended up doing it that way last night.

I had tried to export my contacts before with no success,
but that was a while ago and I've totally reinstalled
Outlook since then. I tried again this morning after I
saw your reply and it appears to work now. Exporting to
excel everytime you want labels is a pain, but if it's
only for Christmas cards I guess it's not too bad.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks, you too

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