For any subfolder to appear in the address book view, it must be enabled as
an "email address book," so you must enable each one. Which begs the
question, is having so many subfolders the best way to organize your
Contacts? If so, fine, but it may not be. There are some drawbacks to doing
so. I'd look this over to see if there might be better ways to group your
contacts, like categories, for example.
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/oloabcat.htm

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"akm" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Russ.
Sorry, guess that should have been my question... ie, do I need to go to
each folder and set up for use for mail merge (have got about 20 or them)
?
And, looks like the answer is YES.
Really appreciate your followup !
Have a good one !
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Thanks again for your help.
akm (XPpro,SP-2,IE-7,Office2003)




"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Did you enable those folders as email address books in their properties?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]




"akm" wrote in message
...
Russ
Thanks for the reply !

Worked well... only question is, when Word asks to select an Outlook
folder
it shows only the main contacts folder, and we have several sub-folders
that
we want to use individually for contact addresses.

How do we get each one of those to show up on the Word mail merge list
of
Outlook contact folders ?

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Thanks again for your help.
akm (XPpro,SP-2,IE-7,Office2003)




"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Outlook has not used PAB file for over a decade. It should not even be
on
your radar.
What you need to do is configure your Outlook Address Book Service
correctly:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Product=ol2002

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]




"akm" wrote in message
...
Trying to print addresses on envelopes from word with outlook
contacts
folder.

When try to pick "outlook contacts folder" as a word recipients
source,
get
error message "unable to obtain list of tables from data source", so
assume
need to set up the data source from the outlook .pab file.

When try to pick outlook .pab file as 'data source' for outlook to
word
mail
merge, get "internal mapi error: the object does not support the
getcontentstable method. contact your administrator".

Is there a good word/outlook mail merge instructions site that
covers
this
problem ?

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Thanks again for your help.
akm (XPpro,SP-2,IE-7,Office2003)