This article describes how to export the Outlook Express Address Book as a text file to use as a mail merge data source in Microsoft Word.

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To export the Address Book from Outlook Express:

1.	Start Outlook Express.
2.	On the File menu, point to Export, and then click Address Book.
3.	In the Address Book Export Tool dialog box, click Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click Export.
4.	In the Save exported file as box, type a file name for your exported Address Book file, and then click Browse.
5.	Save your file to the location that you want. You can save your Outlook Express Address Book in one of two formats, the Comma Separated Values (*.csv) format or the Text Files (*.txt) format, because Word can use either format. In the Save as Type box, click the format that you want to use, click Save, and then click Next.
6.	Click the fields that you want to export as part of your data source, and then click Finish. NOTE: You can export all of the fields in the Outlook Express Address Book except for Gender, Conferencing Email, and Directory Servers.
7.	When Outlook Express finishes the export procedure, click OK to confirm that the procedure is finished, and then click Close.

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For additional information about how to perform a mail merge procedure in Word by using an existing data source, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For additional informationabout how to use the Outlook Express Address Book in a mail merge procedure, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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