Mail Merge with Contact List error

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Paul Petersen

I am unable to complete a mail merge with my Outlook
contact list when using the mail merge wizzard. I
consistently get an error..."Unable to obtain lsit of
tables from teh data source". I ran the fixmapi.exe
utilty, but it has not repaired the problem
 
Are you starting the merge from Outlook? If not, do so.

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No, I should be able to start with a blank document in
Word, and then use the Merge wizard to intiate the merge
with the Contact list. I have the version of Word and
Outlook on my laptop...it works there, but it doesn't
work on my desktop at home. It has something to do with
the way the data is linked.
 
If you are constructing a full mail merge, Yes. But I
have a directory of all the attorneys I work with and I
have form letters that
i am working in within Word. I want to use the merge to
select only one or two names from the list and then go
on. It may be more powerful to go to Outlook, use the
menus and export all 428 names, but it isn't convenient.
With my laptop, when select Outlook as my data source,
then frame directly below correctly lists Personal Folder
[Contacts} as the data source. When I do this with the
desk top it lists nothing, unless I initiate a full merge
with outlook and then I get a *.odc file as my data
source. Do you know how to restore the "From Outlook
contacts" back to my outlook.pst file?
 
The problem outlined in this string was repaired this
afternoon whne we located a Corel 9 Addressbook left over
from an earlier version of WordPerfect. It seems that
the earlier Corel address book causes a conflect with the
Outlook address book. To fix the problem, remove the
Corel 9 addressbook, run fixmapi.exe and restart the
computer. the mail merge will now work.

-----Original Message-----
If you are constructing a full mail merge, Yes. But I
have a directory of all the attorneys I work with and I
have form letters that
i am working in within Word. I want to use the merge to
select only one or two names from the list and then go
on. It may be more powerful to go to Outlook, use the
menus and export all 428 names, but it isn't convenient.
With my laptop, when select Outlook as my data source,
then frame directly below correctly lists Personal Folder
[Contacts} as the data source. When I do this with the
desk top it lists nothing, unless I initiate a full merge
with outlook and then I get a *.odc file as my data
source. Do you know how to restore the "From Outlook
contacts" back to my outlook.pst file?
-----Original Message-----
You get so much more control over the merge by
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starting
from Outlook that I
woinder why you'd bother even tgrying to work with the limitations of trying
to do it the other way. See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

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Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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