Word 2000: Creating mailing labels

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In Microsoft Word 2000, I have been trying unsuccessfully to create mailing
labels by merging an address list. When I bring up the Mail Merge Helper
and go to Data Source and I click on Get Data and then Address Book, I get a
little box saying that Word cannot get my address book, so I am unable to
complete the merge process. Any advice from anyone, please?

Dick1932

 

[Martha]

In Microsoft Word 2000, I have been trying unsuccessfully to create mailing
labels by merging an address list. When I bring up the Mail Merge Helper
and go to Data Source and I click on Get Data and then Address Book, I get a
little box saying that Word cannot get my address book, so I am unable to
complete the merge process. Any advice from anyone, please?

Is your address list an Exchange/Outlook address book, properly set up
to be used by all Office applications? That's what's meant by the
"Address Book" selection. For any other kind of address list, choose
Get Data > Open Data Source, and select the file that contains the
addresses. The file can be a Word document with a table, an Excel
spreadsheet, or even an Access database; basically any file where the
data is arranged in tabular format, i.e. each row is an address, and
each column is a field in the address.

If your address list isn't one of the formats that Word understands,
you might still be able to use it. Open the application that created
the address list, and see if you can export it in csv (comma-delimited
text) format or something similar (tab-delimited text, for example).
Then go back to Word and use your exported file as the data source.