Mail merge from Winmail ??????????

[Andrew Booth]

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using Mail
Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but can't
find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

 

[mac]

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using Mail
Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but
can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows Mail
is not an Office application.

 

[Andrew Booth]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through Word
Mail Merge from a variety of external databases, ODBC, OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using Mail
Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but
can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows
Mail is not an Office application.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Not possible with Windows Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through Word Mail Merge from a variety of external databases, ODBC,
OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using Mail Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows Mail is not an Office application.

 

[Andrew Booth]

OK

Thanks Gary.

Not possible with Windows Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through Word
Mail Merge from a variety of external databases, ODBC, OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using
Mail Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but
can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows
Mail is not an Office application.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You're welcome.
Microsoft has limitations in its free email clients so as not to
diminish the market for Outlook.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

OK

Thanks Gary.

Not possible with Windows Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through Word Mail Merge from a variety of external databases,
ODBC, OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.


Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using Mail Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows Mail is not an Office application.

 

[Dave]

Not directly, but you can export the contacts to a .csv file, which can then
be used.
According to my Outlook 2003 help, Word can use Outlook contacts, an Excel
worksheet, or text files for the data.

So you can export the Windows Mail contacts into a CSV file, which you
should be able to use.

Here is a tutorial..
http://office.microsoft.com/trainin...ID=RC011205671033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011205671033


--
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Not possible with Windows Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through Word
Mail Merge from a variety of external databases, ODBC, OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.

Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using
Mail Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but
can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows
Mail is not an Office application.

 

[Andrew Booth]

Thanks Dave,

Excellent news, the tutorial will be helpful also but a quick test exporting
to CSV, converting to Excel and accessing through Mail Merge worked fine !

Thanks again.

Andy B

Not directly, but you can export the contacts to a .csv file, which can
then be used.
According to my Outlook 2003 help, Word can use Outlook contacts, an Excel
worksheet, or text files for the data.

So you can export the Windows Mail contacts into a CSV file, which you
should be able to use.

Here is a tutorial..
http://office.microsoft.com/trainin...ID=RC011205671033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011205671033


--
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Not possible with Windows Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]

Mac,

Thanks for your reply.

However, as I understand it, I should be able to access data through
Word Mail Merge from a variety of external databases, ODBC, OLE etc.

Is this not possible from Windows Mail.

Thanks again.

Andy B.


Trying to access Contacts in Windows Mail from Microsoft Word using
Mail Merge.

There is a default location [Outlook Contacts] pre-defined in Word but
can't find a route to Mail Contacts.

Anyone help ?

Thanks in advance.

Andy B.

No.
MS Office applications work with other MS Office applications, Windows
Mail is not an Office application.