Standard Mailing using Outlook Contacts/Distribution List

[hofburg]

Hi,
I would like to do a Mail Merge in Word (2003) to some of my Outlook (2007) contacts. I basically understand Mail Merge and am perfectly able to access my OL Contacts from Word.

The problem is: I can access an OL-Contacts Folder but then I seemingly have to manually pick out each applicable contact everytime I do a mailing. I cannot put the contacts in, say, 5 folders, as I need some for different mailings.

Is there a way of setting up a kind of "distribution lists" and accessing these instead of an OL-Contacts Folder for this purpose?

Many thanks.

 

[Jtorres13]

What has worked great for me is to categorize the contacts. Seelct the ones you want to send to the merge, right click on them and go to Categories. Put them in a category. This way next time you want to merge them jsut change the view to see by category, select all the names in the selected category and send to the merge.