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Saving the Outlook contacts as an Excel file didn't help the ability to unselect the Datasource column either. However, going back to Word, using the actual Outlook contact list, &nbsp;the ability to use the the unselect Datasource column worked.
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Saving the Outlook contacts as an Excel file didn't help the ability to unselect the Datasource column either. However, going back to Word, using the actual Outlook contact list,  the ability to use the the unselect Datasource column worked.

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I have a user using Word 2007 on Windows XP.<br />
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When the user selects their Outlook contacts for the mail merge recipients in Word 2007, the user is unable to click the box next to Data Source in order to deselect all contacts/recipients. In order to deselect all, the user must click off the box for each 400+ recipients.<br />
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I am able to deselect all on my Win7 and Office 2007 PC.<br />
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I have a user using Word 2007 on Windows XP.

When the user selects their Outlook contacts for the mail merge recipients in Word 2007, the user is unable to click the box next to Data Source in order to deselect all contacts/recipients. In order to deselect all, the user must click off the box for each 400+ recipients.

I am able to deselect all on my Win7 and Office 2007 PC.

Word 2007 Mail Merge Deselect All Data Source Contacts

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.