Mail Merge problems

Help!
I'm trying to create a mail merge from an outlook contacts folder. I follow the steps correctly-pull up the document I wish to email, select mail merge from the ribbon, select the recipients from the contacts list but after I select the folder I get an error message that says "ERROR; the Microsoft Office access database engine could not find the object". Make sure the object exhists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly. What am I doing wrong? I have now spent 2 1/2 hours working on this problem without resolving. Has this happened to anyone else? Any help will be greatly appreciated-Thanks in advance!