Support "Categories" (Outlook Contacts) in a Word Mail Merge. Stuart Troy 6/11/2007 6:41:01 AM Hi Guys, When your mail merge data source is "Outlook Contacts" how can you choose the "Category" field, as your merge criteria? My 600 Outlook contacts are all categorized. But as far as I can see, there is no way in Word to perform a Outlook contacts merge with the condition based upon the Outlook contact's category. My work around is to start in Outlook, highlight the contacts I want to merge, then initiate the merge from within Outlook. Am I missing something? Thanks Stuart Sydney, AUSTRALIA ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=8efa24ab-8dc7-4aa8-acb0-64cf31a00eaf&dg=microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

Re: Support "Categories" (Outlook Contacts) in a Word Mail Merge. "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 6/11/2007 8:01:33 AM See http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Stuart Troy wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi Guys, > > When your mail merge data source is "Outlook Contacts" how can you > choose the "Category" field, as your merge criteria? > > My 600 Outlook contacts are all categorized. But as far as I can > see, there is no way in Word to perform a Outlook contacts merge with > the condition based upon the Outlook contact's category. > > My work around is to start in Outlook, highlight the contacts I want > to merge, then initiate the merge from within Outlook. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks > Stuart > Sydney, AUSTRALIA > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click > the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the > button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft > Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=8efa24ab-8dc7-4aa8-acb0-64cf31a00eaf&dg=microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields

Re: Support "Categories" (Outlook Contacts) in a Word Mail Merge. "Stuart Troy" <stutroy[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/16/2007 11:48:20 AM Thanks Graham, That's the process I already use. It simply frustrates me that Word does not support the Category field in Outlook Contacts. It's meant to be an office suite, but IMO the integration between Outlook & Word is weak. Cheers Stuart

Re: Support "Categories" (Outlook Contacts) in a Word Mail Merge. "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 6/16/2007 1:39:01 PM If you start from Outlook as instructed in the posted link - it supports *all* the fields including user fields. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Stuart Troy wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thanks Graham, > That's the process I already use. > > It simply frustrates me that Word does not support the Category field > in Outlook Contacts. > It's meant to be an office suite, but IMO the integration between > Outlook & Word is weak. > > Cheers > Stuart