Setting Default Customize Address List Field

[Tomee]

How can I save the custom address list fields so that when i create a new
Mail Merge I don't have to "customize" every time?

When doing a mail merge their is an option to customize the fields where the
Title, First name, Last name, Address 1, Address 2 is, etc. I want to delete
Title, Company, Country and Add Account Number, Case Number. That is fine
but the next time i do a mail merge I don't want to have to go through this
again with deleting and adding the same fields I always use.

Would this be some kind of template embedded somewhere?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Sounds like you maybe using the AddressBlock field. Instead of doing that,
just use the individual merge fields that you want in the configuration that
you want them.

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[Tomee]

Hi doug, i am trying to figure out if it mail be the location of the
datasource that is messing this up. Thank you for your help, i will look up
address block also and post if the customer still isn't able to get the
custom address field. thank you again.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

When you save your address list, it is either saved in a special Acccess
..mdb format (Word 2002 or later) or in a format you define (typically a
table in a Word .doc ) in Word 2000 and earlier. Assuming it's Word 2002 or
later, if you create the fields you want then save the database as a .mdb,
all you really need to do for each new address list is make a new copy of
that .mdb and specify that as your data source in your new Mail merge main
document- I think! (You may need to insert one record to save the .mdb
successfully - I haven't tried it.)

I don't know of any other way to specify the fields you want as "the
defaults"