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AI: Artificial Intelligence or Automated Idiocy? Please mark Yes/No as to whether a Reply answers your question. Twitter follower Toby Sax is anxious for me to revisit an old Mac 911 column that lays out the steps for creating mail merged documents in Microsoft Word. So if you edit the data file after having selected it Word is not aware of those changes even if they were saved. IOW, there is no dynamic connection between the main document & the source, If the changes were saved to the file, was the main document open in Word at the time? If so, you need to select the source file again in order for Word to reread its content. Normally, though, you'd get some sort of notification somewhere along the line indicating why the changes could not be made or why they could not be saved. For more info, see Set up a mail merge list with Word. Word data file is a data source you can create on the fly, within Word. See Use Outlook contacts as a data source for a mail merge. Outlook Contact List contains data in a format that can be read by Word. Not saved you'd need to supply more information about that file. For more info, see Prepare your data source in Excel for a mail merge in Word for Mac. Because only the fields used in the view are copied, you can easily control the data you are copying. If you've edited the source file, have you confirmed that the changes have been saved? Reopen the file in Excel to make that determination. Creating and copying from a table view is a cool trick that can be used in place of export to create contact lists for use outside of Outlook, including as a data source for a mail merge when your Outlook and Word versions are mismatched. document created from a mail merge template. In a merged document, the standard text in a main document is often called boilerplate text. Click the New button in the Manage All Views dialog box. You can specify contacts fields to export to Word document. The parent application or a compatible program. You can use an existing data source, use a list of, or create a new data source. Export or insert contacts details to Word by Copying and Pasting. If the source is not a Word document it must be opened & edited using It does not apply to other type of data sources. The Edit Recipient List tool is active only if the source data file is a Word document.