No argument there. Still the revisions on my web page should help

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
It stops everyone in their tracks who is trying to do their merge from
Outlook, chooses labels, then gets presented with this obsolete
dialog box from which they cannot complete their merge.
Not a bug. Just the poorest design imaginable.
The extra steps for merging to labels from Outlook have now been
added to the original web page
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm which is uploading
at this moment.

I am not sure this is a bug so much as a failure to bring the merge
process
into line with the merge wizard now used in Word 2003. The Outlook
merge dialog also still refers to Catalog merges - now called
Directory merges. --

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Graham Mayor wrote:
Looks like I need to add an extra step to my web page
However in the meantime see
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm


Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
Microsoft won't acknowledge it as a bug, but there are two things
you must somehow discover to get this to work:
1. The Mail Merge Helper is no longer relevant in Office 2003.
However, it is still invoked when you choose to create labels
because it is the only dialog that allows you to select your label
type. Shame on you for not knowing intuitively that after that
you must dismiss it and then invoke Word 2003's Mail Merge Toolbar
to complete the merge. 2. As if that weren't enough, in
Outlook/Word 2002/2003 there is also
an extra step required to create mailing labels. Instructions he
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401
Did this but still no good result. After selecting Mail Merge
from Tools, my
Type of Document is LABELS. After choosing 5160 for Type, I go to
Select Recipients. But when I leave 'Use an Existing List' as in
the example you referred me to, my version goes to two choices:
Connect to New Data Source
and New SQL Server Connection. I'm still a heck of a long way off
from doing
Labels using only a Category sort. Please help / direct me to a
more relevant site. Many thanks.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

See the "Mailmerge from Outlook" item on fellow MVP Graham
Mayor's website
at:

http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in message
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"Patrice" wrote in message
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Help! I've spent several hours and now so has one of my guru
friends trying
to do a Mail Merge for Labels using a Category (Holiday Cards).
How is this
done from Outlook? We were able to do Customized View and get
only the
labels we wanted, but never able to get these labels over to
the Main Doc/Labels. Made several vain attempts. Is there a
bug in Outlook for
doing this?
We're running current versions (Outlook & Word 2003)and
supposedly have
all
the latest updates.

Hello,
I don't have an answer but my guess is that someone in the
Word.mailmerge
newsgroup probably will.
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