Windows Address Book

[Guest]

I use the Windows Address Book for all of my contact information and I'm
wondering if there is a way to print out address labels from it. I'm not
talking about the address book in Outlook Express, I mean the one that comes
in Windows.

 

[Malke]

I use the Windows Address Book for all of my contact information and
I'm wondering if there is a way to print out address labels from it.
I'm not talking about the address book in Outlook Express, I mean the
one that comes in Windows.

The addressbook you see in OE *is* the addressbook that comes in
Windows. AFAIK, you can't use the addressbook as a data source for a
mail merge *unless* you have MS Outlook installed and the addressbook
is shared. Here are some MS Knowledge Base articles about it:

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=269111
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191264

I got this information by doing a Google using the search term "use
Windows addressbook with mail merge" so maybe some of the other links
that come up with that search might be useful to you.

Malke

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

I use the Windows Address Book for all of my contact information and
I'm wondering if there is a way to print out address labels from it.
I'm not talking about the address book in Outlook Express, I mean the
one that comes in Windows.

OE also uses the Windows Address Book.

Export the Address Book as a Text (Comma Separated Vlues) file and open the
resulting CSV file in your spreadsheet program and use that to do what you
want.

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[PA Bear]

How to create a Mail Merge
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm

You can perform a Mail Merge in various Word versions, in many cases using
OE Address Book, to print standard labels for, say, Christmas cards or
newsletter mailings. Much depends on the version of Word version in use:

Word 97: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=195609

Word 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212034

Word 2002: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2946834

On each page, scroll down to Related Articles for links to relevant articles
like

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211206 (WD 2000),
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=270623, and
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191264 (WD 97).

You'll get much more help in this newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields