> On or near 11/12/00 2:10 PM, Imagine That Ministries at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>
>> I am trying to find a way to use the categories in Entourage in the merge
>> manager. Microsoft says this is not supported.
>>
>> I want to sort out a certain category in entourage say �board members� and
>> print envelopes, labels or letters. Microsoft has told me that this level
>> of integration is not supported. They idea of exporting and hand
>> manipulating our ever changing contact base in Excel has me thinking of
>> buying Now Contact! Any Ideas?
>>
on 11/14/00 4:31 PM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is what you are thinking of, perhaps, some kind of AppleScript that would
> let you export contact information, selected by category (one or more), to a
> tab-delimited text file? I imagine that such a file would make fine input to
> a data merge in Word, although I have yet to try that out. That might be
> something someone like Paul or me might be interested in writing.
>
> It isn't perfect, but it would just entail one extra step of exporting the
> file. It <would> be nice if you could tell the Data Merge Manager to use
> just a certain category from the address book, or just selected records so
> you could filter on category and then merge. Feature request, I guess.
Allen, You got it! That's exactly what I'm looking for. I can still hardly
believe that this ability was not a feature in the initial release.-- Keith
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