Mail Merge With Contacts Bringing Up Data Link Properties – How Do I Use This?
I recently had everything on my computer reinstalled, have run all the updates and re-entered all the Contacts I lost. I wanted to mail merge some labels through Word using the Outlook Contacts, as I had done in the past. After selecting the Contacts folder that I wanted to use, instead of the various fields and names coming up for me to select/unselect, etc., a dialogue box came up “Data Link Properties.” This box had the following tabs: Provider, Connection, Advanced, All. The Provider tab said “Select the data you want to connect to” and beneath that OLE DB Providers and a list of various providers(I have no idea what any of this is or what I was supposed to select). The Connection tab said “Specify the following to connect to Access data” (I do not have the program Access on my computer but don’t know if that’s what it was referencing). Then it had 1. Select or enter a database name. 2. Enter information to log onto the database. There was a button to test the connection and that b
