Contact filters don't work

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I use Office 2003 Professional and Windows XP Pro. All programs have the
latest updates. Two of my computers refuse to allow filtering by category.
The other works as it should and I can filter my contacts for mail merge
envelope creation in 5 seconds. Does any one have any ideas what might be
wrong? I have put two computers side by side and copied all dialog boxes.
One works, the other shows all contacts.

Thanks,
Robert
 
Clarify your question.
"refuse to allow filtering by category" tells me nothing.
 
When I use filters in Outlook all categories still appear. I want to be able
to do mail merge to about 100 of my 600 contacts. The 100 are part of one
categoryI want to be able to send the 100 to excel or simply print from
Outlook using mail merge, which by the way doesn't work. Error message:
can't open data file.

Does that help?

Russ Valentine said:
Clarify your question.
"refuse to allow filtering by category" tells me nothing.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Robert said:
I use Office 2003 Professional and Windows XP Pro. All programs have the
latest updates. Two of my computers refuse to allow filtering by
category.
The other works as it should and I can filter my contacts for mail merge
envelope creation in 5 seconds. Does any one have any ideas what might be
wrong? I have put two computers side by side and copied all dialog boxes.
One works, the other shows all contacts.

Thanks,
Robert
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Not much. There are a lot of ways to use filters. Since the category field
contains a string of values, it is not easy to filter on Category.
What most of us do is use the By Category view of the Contacts Folder,
select the members of one category, then do the mail merge to the selected
Contacts.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Robert said:
When I use filters in Outlook all categories still appear. I want to be
able
to do mail merge to about 100 of my 600 contacts. The 100 are part of one
categoryI want to be able to send the 100 to excel or simply print from
Outlook using mail merge, which by the way doesn't work. Error message:
can't open data file.

Does that help?

Russ Valentine said:
Clarify your question.
"refuse to allow filtering by category" tells me nothing.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Robert said:
I use Office 2003 Professional and Windows XP Pro. All programs have
the
latest updates. Two of my computers refuse to allow filtering by
category.
The other works as it should and I can filter my contacts for mail
merge
envelope creation in 5 seconds. Does any one have any ideas what might
be
wrong? I have put two computers side by side and copied all dialog
boxes.
One works, the other shows all contacts.

Thanks,
Robert
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Hi Russ, I have since reinstalled Office and the merge mail feature is now
working correctly. Thanks for the ideas and the moral support!
Robert

Russ Valentine said:
Not much. There are a lot of ways to use filters. Since the category field
contains a string of values, it is not easy to filter on Category.
What most of us do is use the By Category view of the Contacts Folder,
select the members of one category, then do the mail merge to the selected
Contacts.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Robert said:
When I use filters in Outlook all categories still appear. I want to be
able
to do mail merge to about 100 of my 600 contacts. The 100 are part of one
categoryI want to be able to send the 100 to excel or simply print from
Outlook using mail merge, which by the way doesn't work. Error message:
can't open data file.

Does that help?

Russ Valentine said:
Clarify your question.
"refuse to allow filtering by category" tells me nothing.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I use Office 2003 Professional and Windows XP Pro. All programs have
the
latest updates. Two of my computers refuse to allow filtering by
category.
The other works as it should and I can filter my contacts for mail
merge
envelope creation in 5 seconds. Does any one have any ideas what might
be
wrong? I have put two computers side by side and copied all dialog
boxes.
One works, the other shows all contacts.

Thanks,
Robert
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Does this explain why I have trouble filtering "CHE Board" from "Cherokee
County Board"?

When using the Customize View dialog, unless I manually type in "CHE Board"
(quotes and all) into the Category field, I end up with a mix of both
categories.



Since the category field contains a string of values, it is not easy to
filter on Category.
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