It would be helpful to know your version.
Many versions of Word make merging to labels unnecessarily difficult. Two
things it might help you to know:
1. Word should not ask you for your data source. You have already selected
your data source. If Word appears to be asking you for your data source, it
is because Word must first open an obsolete, outdated dialog box so that you
can setup your label type. As soon as you do select your label type, you
must dismiss that dialog box immediately and take no further actions in it.
Instead you should return to Word's mail merge toolbar to complete your
merge by inserting your merge fields.
2. There is an additional step you must take when making labels in Word,
even though you will not be prompted to do so. Apparently Word expects us to
be clairvoyant. Instructions he
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284401
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"jeff sobieraj" jeff wrote in message
...
Russ - I have all of my holiday card categories selected in the Contact
list. I use categories all the time to manage my contacts. When i try to
do
the mail merge in Outlook, i choose the selected contacts and the mail
label
button, but when it goes to open Word to finish the mail merge, and asks
me
to select the data source, id have no idea what or where the COntacts
source
file is.

help!

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Rather hard to say since you didn't tell us what you did.
It's hard to provide much more detail. Here it is:
1. Select the Contacts to which you want to merge
2. Tools Mail Merge...
3. Follow the prompts
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Catherine" wrote in message
news
more detailed explanation please? i tried doing a merge from outlook
just
on
the holiday cards category, but it exported all contacts. what did i
miss?

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

Start the merge from Outlook instead and perform the merge to the
Contacts
in that folder.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"BobRob" wrote in message
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Advise please.

I use Outlook 2003 as part of my Office Suite 2003. I have Windows
XP
Home
with Service Pack 2.

One of my Contact categories is Christmas Card and I have copied all
contacts who fall into this category in a contact sub folder called
Christmas
Card.

To print off labels to all those getting a Christmas Card I go to
Word
/
Tools / Mail Merge and set up the labels. However, when I click the
"Select
from Outlook Contacts" and "choose Contacts Folder" I only see the
folder
containing all my contacts. The Christmas Card sub folder is not
shown.

Therefore, my question is "how do I obtain my sub folder called
Christmas
Card?"