subject: Pst Corruption On Adding Contacts Using Mail Merge Feature [print this page] This article deals with MS Outlook .PST file issue which arises while adding contacts using Mail Merge feature. MS Outlook has powerful contact management feature with which you can store and organize important contact information of people in Contacts. All the contacts are stored in "Contacts" folder and are used as input data for the mail merge feature. This also enables inserting users" details in Word documents.
At times, an Outlook user might experience issues when performing this task. In other words, users fail to add contacts to a mail merge document. Main culprit for this PST file issue is corruption in Outlook profile and/or PST file. As a result, PST file becomes inaccessible and we can"t access our personal storage mails and other items. But one should not worry at all because there is efficient Outlook file repair software available, which put an end to all kind of corruption issues in Outlook PST file.
Consider a situation when a you try to insert contacts from Outlook PST file (the file created by Outlook to store all e-mails, notes, contacts, calendars, and other items) using the Mail Merge feature in one of your MS Word documents. After inserting contacts, the Data Link Properties dialog box opens and thus you fail in your attempt to add the contacts. You lands up in a miserable situation.
Reason for this issue
Possible causes for the above event on adding contacts using mail merge feature could be the following:
Microsoft Outlook uses Microsoft Data Access Components to access its data store, i.e. PST. Your computer is affected due to issues rooting from these components.
Outlook profile is damaged.
Outlook PST is corrupted. An Outlook PST can get corrupt due to network sharing, unexpected shutdown, and similar reasons.
Resolution for this problem
In order to get rid of this issue and to restore Outlook PST file, you need to follow some given below troubleshooting steps:
Install Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to solve the associated components" issue
Delete corrupted user profile and create a new one. Attach the old PST to this profile.
If the problem continues, repair the corrupted PST using Outlook Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe)
Unfortunately Scanpst.exe doesn"t always solve the problem. It usually fails when there is high degree of corruption in Outlook .PST. In case, if Scanpst.exe fails to repair the corrupted file, you need to restore the file from either from last backup or through Outlook File Repair software., which is a third party tool. Software performs fast and flawless Outlook recovery and perfectly recovers emails, contacts, notes, journals, tasks and other items from the corrupt PST file.
