Rather hard to say since you didn't tell us what you did.
It's hard to provide much more detail. Here it is:
1. Select the Contacts to which you want to merge
2. Tools Mail Merge...
3. Follow the prompts
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Catherine" wrote in message
news
more detailed explanation please? i tried doing a merge from outlook just
on
the holiday cards category, but it exported all contacts. what did i
miss?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Start the merge from Outlook instead and perform the merge to the
Contacts
in that folder.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"BobRob" wrote in message
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Advise please.

I use Outlook 2003 as part of my Office Suite 2003. I have Windows XP
Home
with Service Pack 2.

One of my Contact categories is Christmas Card and I have copied all
contacts who fall into this category in a contact sub folder called
Christmas
Card.

To print off labels to all those getting a Christmas Card I go to Word
/
Tools / Mail Merge and set up the labels. However, when I click the
“Select
from Outlook Contacts” and “choose Contacts Folder” I only see the
folder
containing all my contacts. The Christmas Card sub folder is not shown.

Therefore, my question is “how do I obtain my sub folder called
Christmas
Card?”