I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 using my contact list from Outlook
2003. I'd like to edit the recipient list but it won't sort alphabetically
or let me filter. I click on the header or arrow and nothing happens. Any
ideas?

You could copy the list and paste it into Excel, then highlight all columns,
go to Data, Sort, and select the column(s) you want sorted. Adjust the mail
merge to use the Excel database.

Carole O

"Kathie" wrote:

> I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 using my contact list from Outlook
> 2003. I'd like to edit the recipient list but it won't sort alphabetically
> or let me filter. I click on the header or arrow and nothing happens. Any
> ideas?
>

Start the merge from Outlook after first having filtered the contacts list
to produce the records you wish to merge -
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm

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Kathie wrote:
> I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 using my contact list from
> Outlook 2003. I'd like to edit the recipient list but it won't sort
> alphabetically or let me filter. I click on the header or arrow and
> nothing happens. Any ideas?

No need to reinvent the wheel - Outlook provides the tools to do this!

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Carole O wrote:
> You could copy the list and paste it into Excel, then highlight all
> columns, go to Data, Sort, and select the column(s) you want sorted.
> Adjust the mail merge to use the Excel database.
>
> Carole O
>
> "Kathie" wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 using my contact list
>> from Outlook 2003. I'd like to edit the recipient list but it won't
>> sort alphabetically or let me filter. I click on the header or
>> arrow and nothing happens. Any ideas?

Thanks Graham. I don't know why it suddenly stopped working from within
Word. But your solution worked just as well - if not faster. Thanks again.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

> Start the merge from Outlook after first having filtered the contacts list
> to produce the records you wish to merge -
> http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
>
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> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
> My web site www.gmayor.com
> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>
> Kathie wrote:
> > I'm trying to do a mail merge in Word 2003 using my contact list from
> > Outlook 2003. I'd like to edit the recipient list but it won't sort
> > alphabetically or let me filter. I click on the header or arrow and
> > nothing happens. Any ideas?
>
>
>