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Use Word to print mail labels

2008-04-22 13:40:08 by Kevin Sablan in Gadgetress

The North Orange County Computer Club is helping The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org.

Question: I would really appreciate some help in learning how to prepare address labels in Word. Seems like the software makes it a bit confusing. I know you have to have a mailing list and merge it with the label file, but what is the format for the mailing list? Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

NOCC: I am answering this for Word 2003. What you really use for a merge is three documents: The information document, the main document, and the finished document.

Information document: The mailing list can come from several different sources: Excel, Access, Outlook, Word table, text file, etc. I know that you have Word so let’s use a Word Table for the mailing list.

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