Microsoft Outlook has powerful contact management features, using which you can store and organize important contact information of people in contact. All the contacts are stored in ‘contact 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. Common reasons for this are corruption in Outlook profile and/or PST file. In case of PST damage, user needs to repair corrupted PST using an efficient PST Repair Tool.Consider, a user tries 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 his Microsoft Word documents. After this, the Data Link Properties dialog box displays and user fails in his attempt to add the contacts.
Cause
Possible causes for the above event are:
· 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.
Solution
To troubleshoot, you need to:
· 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)
In case, Scanpst fails to repair the corrupted file, you need to restore the file from last backup or use a third-party Outlook PST Repair solution. These software are effective PST Repair Tool that can use powerful, yet safe, scanning algorithms to repair corrupted Outlook data file, PST.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an advanced PST Recovery utility that repairs corrupted or damaged PST files for Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It restores all PST objects like, e-mails, notes etc. in a new PST file. This Outlook PST Repair solution is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
