Create mailing labels from Outlook filtered by category

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I am using Outlook 2003 and Word 2003. I use my Outlook Contacts folder to
keep track of my Christmas card list (about 200 people) as well as maintain
contact information for other people. I use the Category field heavily to
designate card recipients as well as other stuff, and the filtering on this
field within Outlook works great. I'd like to use the MailMerge option in
Word directly from my Contacts folder, but Category is not one of the columns
that MailMerge brings in (at least I couldn't see it!) so I can't filter on
it. This makes me do an extra set of steps to get a folder just for Holiday
cards. It's a pain! I would to see Category included in the MailMerge
fields, or another simple way to create labels directly from Outlook,
possibly as a Print Style, since those can be filtered.

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[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Easy answer. Feature already exists.
Just start the merge from Outlook, not Word.