Comments on: How To Mail Merge Apple Address Book with Microsoft Word

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:37:15 +0000

Thank you! Made a mistake first with selecting the wrong entries (had home addresses but selected ‘work’ in export). After I figured that out it worked a treat!

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:29:21 +0000

William -

You need to set up a template with the letter in the same way you would create a label list, and then specify it as the template to be used when doing the merge. If that makes sense. To do so, use the “Form Letter” option when you click “create” in the mail merge manager palette.

By: William Glazer MD

William Glazer MD — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:31:28 +0000

I want to insert a full address from Apple Address to MS Word – e.g., I am writing a letter and want to put the person’s full address at the top. How do I perform such a function?

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:37:02 +0000

I thought I could use one of the other fields – department or title or something but then there was no way to use that field in the label!

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:35:43 +0000

hi Vincent – I do have a group with my mailing list addresses – the problem is creating a label with a name, then “or current occupant” then the address…. couldn’t find any way to add the second line I need to be able to do a bulk mailing…..even went to a session with the techy guys at the apple store and they didn’t know how to make it happen

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:04:21 +0000

In Address Book if you create a group, you can then use that group in Apple Mail. Is that what you had in mind Denise?

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:10:32 +0000

does anyone know if it is possible (and with what program) to create a mailing
label for bulk mail – it has to have an added line “or current resident” under the
name. Can’t figure out how to make Address Book accept the additional field…..
HELP !

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:51:27 +0000

Tracy – I am unable to replicate what you describe. Where you abel to remedy this at all? Vincent =

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:52:29 +0000

I was thankful for find this article; however, so far it isn’t working for me. There isn’t a mail merge manager feature under tools in microsoft word–but rather a data merge feature, which looks similar though not exactly the same. For step two, “open data source” is grayed out so I cannot select it. How do I remedy this problem? I am using snow leopard and word for mac 2004. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:36:09 +0000

That would depend on the format of them and how they can or not be easily imported into numbers, if you have that, because you could do a mail merge from there.

By: Bob Faszczewski

Bob Faszczewski — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:16:33 +0000

I have a list of names and addresses stored in a Pages document. I wish to print the list out on Avery mailing labels. I am running MAC OSX. Is there a way to do this directly or do I have to keyboard the list into Address Book?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:28:55 +0000

when you say table format what do you mean? in numbers? in excel? in csv?

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:11:53 +0000

I have a list of names, addresses, etc done in a table format. I want to make labels for these 250 names but when I do Open Data in Step 2 it says: can’t open because it is not a data or header source and is an active mail merge document. What does that mean?? I have a Snow Leopard and need some help.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:52:38 +0000

THANK YOU!!! This was simple and accurate. I really appreciate you taking the time to post this information.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:40:27 +0000

Thanks. That was a very simple and extremely helpful solution.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:31:07 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!

By: Marsha

Marsha — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:47:34 +0000

Thank you so much for your article. It was so very helpful!