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
    2014-03-12T04:07:56+00:00

    Yes, I do.  thanks for trying to help.   I have Outlook 2013 and Word 2010 in a Windows 8.1 Pro environment.  My troubleshoot:  I marked my data file outlook.pst as my email address book.  I added the Address Book to the Quick Access bar.  At the Control Panel - Mail, I looked at the Address Book Tab.  There is no option in the change settings to change the Type.  If I press change.., a dialogue appears to either remove the data source or change a password.  I have done all I know.  It shouldn't be this hard. 

    I have even changed the registry along a given path HOT_KEY_CURRENT_USER\SoftwareMicrosoft\Office\14.0Outlook]RPC  and made a 32-bit DWORD DefConnectOpts with a value of 0.  This is supposed to show or enable a choice to change the Type to cache exchange mode.  But after restart, there was no further change option, and the Address Book in Word was grayed out and inop as usual.

    I don't think my case can be resolved, but thank you just the same.  I feel it was a waste of time.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-12T02:47:35+00:00

    In Outlook, do you have your Contacts identified as an Address Book?

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