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
    2014-03-12T23:37:47+00:00

    Hi Suzanne,

    Thank you for the helpful advice.  I will try it this weekend when I have more time.

    I  work part-time for my husband's business and he's the one with all the questions and things

    he wants to me to.  I also watch my grand-children when my daughter works.  Not much time for me, but

    am grateful that I have my health to do both!

    Thank you for your gracious help!

    Lorraine

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-12T22:46:51+00:00

    That obviously has to do with trying to start the merge from Outlook (often recommended). As for starting it from Word, Word 2003 knows only about "Outlook Personal Address Books (*.pab), but in Word 2010 (as expected), but also in Word 2007, under Select Recipients, I can choose Outlook Contacts. If I choose this in Word 2013, nothing happens, so that's the end of the line.

    Possibly you could export your Outlook Contacts to a .csv file, open it in Excel, and use that as a data source.

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