Resolving PST issues while adding contacts using Mail Merge feature

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<h1>Resolving PST issues while adding contacts using Mail Merge feature</h1><strong> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_Added Tool.aspx'>Added Tool</a></strong><br /><p>Microsoft Outlook is an exhaustively used email client across the corporate industry around the globe. MS Outlook has been known to have a robust contact management function, owing to which it can store and organize imperative contact information of people in contact. All the contacts saved in MS Outlook are stored in ‘contact folder’ and are used as input data for the mail merge feature. This feature will let you insert user’s details in MS Word documents. Many a times, an Outlook user comes across problems while he/she performs his routine tasks. Consequently, user fails to add contacts in a mail merge document. This is not a routine issue and so it’s important to go to the root of the issue. The main reason behind this issue might be corruption in Outlook profile or PST file. If you are assured that the PST has been hit with corruption, user needs to repair damaged PST using an effective PST repair tool. Suppose this, a user tries to insert contacts from his/her MS Outlook PST file (PST is the file created by Outlook to store all its email messages, notes, contacts, calendars and other items) with the help of mail merge feature in one of his Microsoft Word documents. After this, the Data Link Properties dialog box appears and user fails to add the contacts with the mail merge. Here are some of the possible causes of the above error message: • Microsoft Outlook makes use of Microsoft Data Access Components to access its data store which is the PST file. It’s quite possible that the computer is affected with the issue consequences of this component. • Your Outlook profile is damaged • MS Outlook PST file is corrupt. The Outlook PST file might corrupt due to network sharing, unexpected system shutdown or similar reasons. In order to resolve these errors, use the following troubleshooting tips: • Install Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to resolve this related component’s issue and perform Microsoft Outlook Repair • Delete corrupt user profile and create a new profile. Now attach the old PST to this profile • If the issue persists, perform Microsoft Outlook repair on the corrupt or damaged PST file with the help of Outlook Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) If in case the Scanpst.exe file fails to perform Microsoft Outlook Repair. of the corrupt PST file, you need to restore the file from the last updated backup file. But if the backup file is absent or if the backup file itself is corrupt, then we suggest you to use powerful, safe and intuitively designed Microsoft Outlook Repair tool to get your lost data back. These tools are known to restore all PST objects such as emails, notes, appointments, calendar, contacts etc in the newly created PST file. </p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />Author of the article has expertise in the field of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nucleusdatarecovery.org">Data Recovery Software</a>,email recovery, email migration,<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.diskdatarecovery.net">Data Recovery</a>, password recovery. He enjoys writing innovative and technology-based articles on various topics related to<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.microsoftoutlookrepair.com"> Microsoft Outlook Repair </a> <p> Article Source: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Resolving-PST-issues-while-adding-contacts-using-Mail-Merge-feature_18181.aspx'> http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Resolving PST issues while adding contacts using Mail Merge feature_18181.aspx</a></p>

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