Outlook or Access? Which is best program to organize my mail order contact information

[Michael]

Hello anyone - My name is Michael. For years I have been struggling with my mail order aspect of my business. I have thousands of entries into my Outlook program - but find it difficult to organize and send "Mass Mailings" to prospective customers. What is the best way to organize the information? I have also "Clicked" my way into oblivion -= via AOL and made a database there in my address book, however when I synchronized it with Outlook - the contact people's names were then loaded into the "Company" field in my Outlook contacts area. How can I also get the first and last names to be re-organized from the "Company" field. See my dilemma?? Any help would be truly appreciated ! Thanks - Michael

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Access is generally better for organizing business information that you may
need to sort by categories or fields. Outlook's contact folder is meant to
be used as a phone list.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Michael <[email protected]> asked:
| Hello anyone - My name is Michael. For years I have been struggling
| with my mail order aspect of my business. I have thousands of
| entries into my Outlook program - but find it difficult to organize
| and send "Mass Mailings" to prospective customers. What is the best
| way to organize the information? I have also "Clicked" my way into
| oblivion -= via AOL and made a database there in my address book,
| however when I synchronized it with Outlook - the contact people's
| names were then loaded into the "Company" field in my Outlook
| contacts area. How can I also get the first and last names to be
| re-organized from the "Company" field. See my dilemma?? Any help
| would be truly appreciated ! Thanks - Michael