Issues while trying to add Outlook contacts to a mail merge document

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Categorized Under - Outlook Tips

All those using Microsoft Outlook know that they can save and maintain contacts of business related people and others they want to communicate with. Moreover, while using this contact folder for remembering contact addresses, you can use this as a source for mail merge. This contact folder enables you to get name and addresses to be merged into a single Word Document. However, there are times when users face problems while adding contacts from MS Outlook to mail merge document. One of the main reasons could be corruption of Outlook profile or PST (personal storage) file damage.

To recovery essential data in these kinds of corruption cases, you can rely on your updated data backup. However, if your backup is not updated, damaged or absent, you have to use Repair PST software application to refurbish your lost data. Suppose you try to add MS Outlook Contacts to a Word Document through mail merge and Data Link Properties dialogue appears; restraining you not to add contacts to the document further.

Reasons behind the issue

Following are the reasons behind such kind of behavior:

  • There are certain Microsoft Data Access Component problems related with system, which are Windows apparatus and allow access to data store.
  • Possibilities are that either your Outlook profile is corrupt or pst file is damaged
    Solution- In order to solve the above mentioned problems; you can follow the steps given below:
  • If MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) is the reason behind the issue, then you have to install the service pack of MDAC, MDAC 2.8 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  • If the problem persists, Outlook profile is supposedly damaged. In order to deal with it, you need to create a new profile and configure it to be used by the PST file that was earlier used by the corrupt Outlook profile.
  • If the pst is damage or corrupt, run the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) to repair the corrupt PST. You can utilize a recent data backup to refurbish the pst. However, if Inbox Repair Tool cannot fix the corruption and you have the recently updated backup of data you can utilize it. In absence of backup, you need to utilize the third party Outlook Recovery tools.

    • Outlook Repair PST software is a uniquely designed tool to scan, repair and restore the essential data securely from the damaged pst file. This application is equipped with superlative algorithms that can easily repair and recover all pst objects such as emails, appointments, contacts, tasks etc.

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