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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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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.
If you have Word 2010 Starter, then you can't customize the QAT.
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.
It's always been the case that you had to Select Recipients (or Get Data) before you could do anything with the mergefields via the user interface.
Be wary of the Address Block. It can be better to just insert the Merge Fields that you want in the configuration that you want them.
While at one time Outlook could use Word as its editor, it has always been a separate application albeit, included with Word, Excel and other applications in some of the Office suites.
You're right, I do that too.
I notice, in Word, we have to Select Recipients, or else the Address Block and Find Recipients are grayed out on the ribbon. It's okay, I'll work with "the nature of the beast".
Too bad Microsoft split Outlook away from Word and got all fancy pants, ribbons and all. I'm not about to drop over $200 to buy the 2013 edition of Word, just to see if it will work with Outlook 2013! |:o}
For now, I have saved my favorite sized envelopes in "My Data Sources" shortcut with an Outlook Data Base Recipient in the <<AddressBlock>> already . I open them from there, Word pops up, the data base macro to Find Recipients in Outlook runs, and I select recipients from Outlook and print one at a time.
How lucky are those who have a simple working little address book, like we used to have in Office 97!