Since you already have your Contacts organized by Categories, use the "By
Category" vies of your Contacts Folder to filter your Contacts, then start
to merge from Outlook to the Contacts you have selected in that view.
Thanks for your response! I tried that and it still wants to merge all the
categories not just the selected category. I had to put in about 2 hours of
work doing the merge from word and using contacts and having to go through
and select everyone individually because from word it won't let you use
categories either... very frustrating - should be easier!
As I said in my first post, you must start the merge from Outlook, not Word.
Select the members in the Category to which you want to merge. Then perform
the merge to "Only Selected Contacts"