> Thanks for your reply
> Reboot gave no solution.
> Had already tried starting from Outlook which works presumably
> because the contacts have been selected before the process passes to
> Word
> Looked at Graham Mayor's website. Don't seem to have missed anything.
> (The method of getting the single initial for the names will be
> useful later)
>
>> Well the first thing I would do is a reboot.
>>
>> Next, try initiating the merge from Outlook
>>
>> 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
>>
>> "Rogerburdon" <Rogerburdon[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:4E28D51A-2C5F-4EB5-9CB1-1FFC188C3BFE[ at ]microsoft.com...
>>> Moved from office97(Pro) to office2007(trial v.). Copied
>>> outlook.pst to desktop, uninstalled Off.97,downloaded Off.2007 and
>>> installed without reboot.
>>> All seemed well.
>>> Trying to use labels but whether from the wizard or from selection
>>> on the ribbon, select recipients from Contacts gives"unable to
>>> obtain tables from data source".What do I do next?
>>> Similarly if I use create labels from the ribbon and click on the
>>> address book logo, I get "can't load extended MAPI library
>>> mapi32.dll." Search on MAPI 32.dll shows 4 files:OLMAPI 2.dll3
>>> twice, one path to programme files\...office12 with a date 9/5/08
>>> which is before I moved to Office2007 and the other path,
>>> \MSOCache\all user\...prorWW.cab dated 27/10/18(which is
>>> the date of moving to Off2007). Both are app extn of c2800KB. The
>>> other two
>>> files are MSMAPI32.dll, first path \MSO Cache\alluser\{
>>> }\outlkr.cab dated
>>> 27/10/08 and timed same as olmap32.dll above. The other path path
>>> is\prog files\common fliles\system\msmapi\1033 also dated 27/10/08
>>> but timed an hour
>>> earlier. What do I do next?
>>>
>>> Thanks Roger & Out