How do I create an address book in Word 2010

Anonymous
2010-09-01T00:34:30+00:00

I have tried numerous help searches but cannot find an answer on creating an address book (or is it contacts) in Word 2010. While using WordPerfect it was simple. I just clicked on "tools" and then "address book" selected an individual and then clicked "insert" and the name appeared in the recipient box of the envelope window. In word you have to manually enter a recipient address. How do I go about creating a list of contacts and addresses so I don't have to manually type in the recipient's name and address when I am creating an envelope?

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Anonymous
2010-09-01T11:52:14+00:00

There is no address book or contacts in Word. It is Outlook that is the email client which has the contacts database. If you don’t have Outlook, what do you use as your email client? That may have what you are looking for.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-07-23T03:39:22+00:00

If you have Word 2010 Starter, then you can't customize the QAT.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2012-06-17T12:57:10+00:00

The keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+D inserts a DATE field using the currently selected default date format. If you want just date text rather than a field, you have to immediately unlink it with Ctrl+Shift+F9. Greg's macro is more efficient, however, because it inserts the date as text to begin with.

A possibly better approach for letters, however, is to use a letter template that includes the CREATEDATE field. Whenever you create a new document based on this template, the field will be updated to the current date and will never update thereafter (the template retains the date it was created, but new documents have their own creation dates).

For more on creating letter templates, see http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/Letterhead.htm.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-13T20:13:06+00:00

    Dear Curtis, Your solution seems to MISS the point...if there is NO Addressbook to summon, how the **** does one access the non-existent addressbook? sadly rex thompson

    As others have said in this thread, you are most likely "out of luck" with the so-called Word address book unless you have Outlook installed and have your addresses entered into the Outlook address book. I did not miss the point. I made a point. I am now going to unsubscribe from this thread to avoid unnecessary all caps badgering from "sad rex" and others. I was just trying to help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-13T19:41:31+00:00

    Barnhill completely misses the point.  I do not have Outlook.  I do not want to buy Outlook.  I do not often create "mailings" or use  a "mail merge."  I do occasionally type a single letter to someone (the CPA, for example) and I want to put her address in the letter and on the envelope.  For this purpose Word is USELESS.  I use Word Perfect and recommend it to all friends who ask me.

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