label printing

[I M Wellworn]

I am using wxp pro with office 2003 and
I have a large word file of names and addresses which I update at 6 months
and I use it to print name and address labels. Following updates by
removing and adding I need to reset the spacing to print on labels There
must be a less time consuming way of doing this, the bringing up to date bit
I can live with but the resetting the spacing is a wast of my time. are
there any alternatives could it be easier using a spreadsheet or DB
comments would be appreciated
I M W

 

[LVTravel]

What you want to do is (if you insist on using Word) create a table of the
name, street, and C, S, Z and update that. Then create a label template in
Word and do a mail merge into the template. It makes the job of label
creation much easier than creating a word document like you have done. As
DandyDon said, you will need to do some reading on tables, mail merge and
labels.

 

[DanS]

I am using wxp pro with office 2003 and
I have a large word file of names and addresses which I update at 6
months and I use it to print name and address labels. Following
updates by removing and adding I need to reset the spacing to print
on labels There must be a less time consuming way of doing this, the
bringing up to date bit I can live with but the resetting the spacing
is a wast of my time. are there any alternatives could it be easier
using a spreadsheet or DB comments would be appreciated
I M W

Yeah you could learn about tables, and templates, and mail merge, but who
wants to do that.

Avery has freeware that does all that for you. It integrates directly
into Word and allows you to use existing data. Not sure if it will import
a non-table formatted Word document, but it does have Word on it's list
of data sources it can import from.

Avery Wizard 3.0:
http://www.avery.com/us/Main?
action=software.AverySoftwareDetail&catalogcode=WEB01&softwarecode=3201

(Watch for wrapping on the URL)

I don't know if you've ever used Avery labels, but an older program I
used to use was Avery Label Pro. You select the label stock you have, by
Avery P/N, tell it a datasource, then hit print....pretty simple.