I have recently migrated to Office 2007 and am having problems with
mail merges. With Outlook 2003 I put a link the Mail Merge wizard on
the toolbar. Normal I select the public contact I want to merge a
letter (or whatever) to and them click this "shortcut" or goto
ToolsMail Merge and select "Use existing contacts" and "Use existing
document". Once I click OK Word 2007 opens and the document looks
right but is no longer a valid merge document. I've tried updating the
document to a docx and still nothing. The really weird part is that if
I open the document first then select the data source as Outlook
contacts it will work but only for local contact and not public
contact, but I only use the merging features for public contact. Not
only that but the fields seem to be different between public contacts
and private one. Is there any truth to this or am I just crazy. I need
to be able to select a contact in a public folder and merge from
Outlook using an existing document. Does anyone know how to do this?

I sure don't, but I would suggest cross-posting to the relevant Word and
Exchange groups to increase your chances of getting an answer. Merges to
public folders are a bit beyond the purview of this group. Be sure you
include your Exchange Server version when you do.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Syber Kowboy" wrote in message
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I have recently migrated to Office 2007 and am having problems with
mail merges. With Outlook 2003 I put a link the Mail Merge wizard on
the toolbar. Normal I select the public contact I want to merge a
letter (or whatever) to and them click this "shortcut" or goto
ToolsMail Merge and select "Use existing contacts" and "Use existing
document". Once I click OK Word 2007 opens and the document looks
right but is no longer a valid merge document. I've tried updating the
document to a docx and still nothing. The really weird part is that if
I open the document first then select the data source as Outlook
contacts it will work but only for local contact and not public
contact, but I only use the merging features for public contact. Not
only that but the fields seem to be different between public contacts
and private one. Is there any truth to this or am I just crazy. I need
to be able to select a contact in a public folder and merge from
Outlook using an existing document. Does anyone know how to do this?

you can try Aladdins Office Documents, which allows quick merging using
templates.

http://www.software-solutions.co.nz/.../alodabout.asp

Jason

"Syber Kowboy" wrote in message
...
I have recently migrated to Office 2007 and am having problems with
mail merges. With Outlook 2003 I put a link the Mail Merge wizard on
the toolbar. Normal I select the public contact I want to merge a
letter (or whatever) to and them click this "shortcut" or goto
ToolsMail Merge and select "Use existing contacts" and "Use existing
document". Once I click OK Word 2007 opens and the document looks
right but is no longer a valid merge document. I've tried updating the
document to a docx and still nothing. The really weird part is that if
I open the document first then select the data source as Outlook
contacts it will work but only for local contact and not public
contact, but I only use the merging features for public contact. Not
only that but the fields seem to be different between public contacts
and private one. Is there any truth to this or am I just crazy. I need
to be able to select a contact in a public folder and merge from
Outlook using an existing document. Does anyone know how to do this?