Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that I am not
connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is there a quick way
to fix this?

Yes.

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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that
| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is
| there a quick way to fix this?

OK I'll bite. What is it?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Yes.

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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that
| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is
| there a quick way to fix this?

Of course other than using the exchange server.

"dannyb" wrote:

OK I'll bite. What is it?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Yes.

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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that
| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is
| there a quick way to fix this?

You first - provide details on what problems you are having.

No one could possibly decipher what you are talking about without a problem description. "Every problem that I come across..."

We are not clairavoyalant, you know.

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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| OK I'll bite. What is it?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Yes.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:
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||| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that
||| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is
||| there a quick way to fix this?

I guess that my main problem is that when I attempt to do a mail merge in
word using the step wizard, at step 3 I get "Unable to obtain list of tables
from the data source.". Then when I try to start from outlook through tools,
mail-merge, existing document, I can't find the templates so I use a docx of
the template and I can't change any of the contact fields because the toolbar
for doing that is greyed out, so I try to use it as it is but the
unchangeable fields don't match ( full_name versus first_name, last_name) so
I try to go back and split the full name field into first name lastname
fields but outlook won't let me etc.


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

You first - provide details on what problems you are having.

No one could possibly decipher what you are talking about without a problem description. "Every problem that I come across..."

We are not clairavoyalant, you know.

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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| OK I'll bite. What is it?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Yes.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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|| After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:
||
||| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact that
||| I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna be). Is
||| there a quick way to fix this?

I don't use mail merges often enough to be fluently conversant with the process but you can start he
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/startletter.asp

If you have additional questions, feel free to follow-up with specific problems.


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After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:

| I guess that my main problem is that when I attempt to do a mail
| merge in word using the step wizard, at step 3 I get "Unable to
| obtain list of tables from the data source.". Then when I try to
| start from outlook through tools, mail-merge, existing document, I
| can't find the templates so I use a docx of the template and I can't
| change any of the contact fields because the toolbar for doing that
| is greyed out, so I try to use it as it is but the unchangeable
| fields don't match ( full_name versus first_name, last_name) so I try
| to go back and split the full name field into first name lastname
| fields but outlook won't let me etc.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| You first - provide details on what problems you are having.
||
|| No one could possibly decipher what you are talking about without a
|| problem description. "Every problem that I come across..."
||
|| We are not clairavoyalant, you know.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:
||
||| OK I'll bite. What is it?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Yes.
||||
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, dannyb asked:
||||
||||| Every problem that I come across seems to boil down to the fact
||||| that I am not connected to an exchange server (and I don't wanna
||||| be). Is there a quick way to fix this?