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

By: Monica M

Monica M — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:51:32 +0000

Ok, in trying one last time, this is actually what Word is popping up and telling me. “WORD COULD NOT FINISH MERGING THESE DOCUMENTS OR INSERTING THIS DATABASE” Thanks for any advise!

By: Monica M

Monica M — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:34:20 +0000

I got all the way through the tutorial and merged both into a doc and also straight to printer. When I previewed it before clicking print, there was nothing there – absolutely nothing. When I printed it, again, there was nothing at all there. I can see it on the ‘envelope’ when I’m dropping fields in and when I ‘preview’ using the ABC button but something must be going wrong when I merge them. Any ideas?

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:16:08 +0000

It could be there is something wrong with the merge template. I suppose other options might include a software bug, so ensure you always have the latest update for MS Office. This is something I am yet to see personally in my travels. Best, Vincent =

By: Holly W

Holly W — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 05:15:41 +0000

When I do the final merge it is only putting one or two addresses in per page – do you know how to fix this? Thanks!

By: David

David — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:17:10 +0000

Thank you! Thank you!

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:56:22 +0000

I am not sure if there is an easy way, maybe so, that I haven’t researched or investigated. Assuming there are not too many, I would copy and paste them into a text document, do a series of string replaces, to convert all the addresses into CSV. There would still be residual work to clean up the details, but much easier to focus on than to spend all your time copying and pasting back and forth. Good luck!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:03:47 +0000

I just switched from PC to Mac, and I need to do the opposite: I have all my contacts in mailing label word document and I need to get them into my Mac address book. I have tried cutting and pasting and converting to CSV with Excel, but this is not working right importing- the address fields will not list properly. Is there an easier way to get the mailing labels into the Address book?

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:53:00 +0000

Mike – Simply move that older somewhere safe, and then start AddressBook again, it should recreate everything it needs. Best, Vincent =

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:08:44 +0000

Thanks so much for your help Vincent. Unfortunately I only got as far as /addressbook. Not sure how to ‘reopen the app to start afresh’. my options include:
ABPerson.skIndexInverted
ABSubscribedPerson.skIndexInverted
AddressBook.data
AddressBook.data.previous
Images
I’ve clicked on all 5 options but where to go from here is unclear. Might you have a further suggestion? I’d be eternally grateful as this is holding me back setting up several other aspects of my computer (Ichat is affected by this bogus card in my address book). Thanks again for getting me this far!

By: Vincent Roman

Vincent Roman — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:34:41 +0000

Mike = I would try moving/backup up the application data files in:

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/

and then re-opening the app to start afresh.

Best, Vincent -

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:36:58 +0000

HELP. I accidentally merged ALL of my contacts into one address book entry. Now, not surprisingly, that file crashes if i try to open it. I have all the information in my iphone, I just want to delete all the contents of the address book and start fresh but I can’t get it to open. Should i trash the application? Is there somewhere I can redownload it? PLEASE HELP!? Thanks :)

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!