Performing a Mail Merge from Outlook

As the previous sections illustrated, it’s easy to perform a mail merge from Word 2007 and pull contact information from Outlook 2007. You can also filter the contacts to include only those that suit your needs.

You can also perform a mail merge from Outlook 2007. Starting from Outlook 2007 gives you a few advantages:

  • More control over contacts to be included. You can merge all the contacts in the current view of the Contacts folder or merge only those contacts you have selected in the folder.

  • Control over which fields to include. You can include all contact fields or only those fields that are visible in the current folder view.

  • Capability to save the contacts for later use. Outlook 2007 gives you the option of ...

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