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February 11th 06, 10:41 PM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying
to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. 
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February 11th 06, 11:11 PM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
"Patrice" wrote in message
... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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February 12th 06, 09:05 AM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website
at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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February 13th 06, 10:07 PM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my
Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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#5
February 13th 06, 10:50 PM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Did you start the mail merge from Outlook, after selected the contacts you want to merge? It sounds like you probably didn't. That's a critical part of the process.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Patrice" wrote in message ... Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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February 13th 06, 10:54 PM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must
somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you  for not knowing intuitively that after that you must dismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Patrice" wrote in message ... Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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#7
February 14th 06, 08:17 AM
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Contacts/Category Mail Merge
Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page
 However in the meantime see http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things you must somehow discover to get this to work: 1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003. However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after that you mustdismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401 Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge from Tools, my Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices: Connect to New Data Source and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off from doing Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a more relevant site. Many thanks. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at: http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... "Patrice" wrote in message ... Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru friends trying to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards). How is this done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get only the labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a bug in Outlook for doing this? We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and supposedly have all the latest updates. Hello, I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the Word.mailmerge newsgroup probably will. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom.
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