Re: Printing Address Labels

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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:25:55 GMT Jon Cartmel wrote:
> Essentially, a
> sub-set of people will have addresses, and I will want to print a sub-set of
> those. The latter sub-set will vary - e.g. Christmas cards and holiday post
> cards. So, each person, with an address, will need to have 0, 1 or 2 flags
> set depending on whether they ar to get a Christmas card and/or a holiday
> post card.
>
Use categories to flag your contacts. You can assign as many categories as you
like to an item.

Once you have assigned the categories, you can create a filter (View|Filter)
and select the category you want to work with.

Using the filtered group in a mail merge requires an intermediate step in
Outlook 97. See this Knowledge Base article for details --
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=160521 I prefer the second option (create a
temporary folder for the group, enable it as an address book and use that for
the merge job).

> I used to be able to do this with Lotus organiser and find it hard to
> understand why it is so difficult in Microsoft.
>
Well Outlook 97 was the first attempt. The merge part is easier with later
versions.

> Apologies if this is not the right forum - please put me right if that is
> the case!
>
The best place for this question would actually be
microsoft.public.outlook.contacts so if you have more questions along these
lines, post them there.
--
Athena

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