Outlook & Word XP: How do I print labels for Christmas cards?!

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I get some incredibly frustrated with MS Word & Outlook sometimes!
Especially when it comes to trying and make it print a bunch of labels for
me, for addressing Christmas cards. According to the online help I can
start in Outlook's Contacts and select those I want to send messages to.
Fine. I've done that.

Now what?! The instructions don't say, and I just can't lay my head on the
keyboard and hope to learn what I'm supposed to do next. I suppose the
online help could help, but I don't know what the "correct" key words would
be, so I cannot enter the keywords to get the job done. So please, in
straight forward English, giving one step at a time, starting from Outlook
XP and finishing up in Word XP, how do I generate a printout of labels,
including some clip art, using the contacts in Outlook's contacts (selecting
only those I want)?

Rod
 
Thank you, Russ, I'll take a look at the link you've mentioned.

Rod

Russ Valentine said:
Outlook uses Word for performing mail merge functions such as Form Letters,
mailing labels, envelopes, and fax or email merges. For an overview of these
functions take a look here:
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/printlabel.htm

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rod said:
I get some incredibly frustrated with MS Word & Outlook sometimes!
Especially when it comes to trying and make it print a bunch of labels for
me, for addressing Christmas cards. According to the online help I can
start in Outlook's Contacts and select those I want to send messages to.
Fine. I've done that.

Now what?! The instructions don't say, and I just can't lay my head on the
keyboard and hope to learn what I'm supposed to do next. I suppose the
online help could help, but I don't know what the "correct" key words would
be, so I cannot enter the keywords to get the job done. So please, in
straight forward English, giving one step at a time, starting from Outlook
XP and finishing up in Word XP, how do I generate a printout of labels,
including some clip art, using the contacts in Outlook's contacts (selecting
only those I want)?

Rod
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Hello Russ,

I guess I still don't get it. I went to the slipstick website, went through
the instructions and prompted printed a sheet of blank labels. What am I
doing wrong??? Is there some what that you're supposed to put something
into those little black rectangles in the Word document it makes up? And if
so, how??? I don't see anything at all, anywhere at all, that tells me it
has FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, ADDRESS, or anything. And believe me, I can't
read the minds of the programmers who came up with something that doesn't
want to help the user get the job done.

Rod
 
Russ, et. al.,

I finally figured it out, but going to the Microsoft Knowledgebase article
referred to on the website you referred to. (For everyone else's benefit,
the MS Knowledgebase article is: 284401, "OL2002: Mail Merge to Create
Labels from Outlook 2002 Contacts Is Incomplete".)

Thank you for your patience.

Rod

Rod said:
Hello Russ,

I guess I still don't get it. I went to the slipstick website, went through
the instructions and prompted printed a sheet of blank labels. What am I
doing wrong??? Is there some what that you're supposed to put something
into those little black rectangles in the Word document it makes up? And if
so, how??? I don't see anything at all, anywhere at all, that tells me it
has FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, ADDRESS, or anything. And believe me, I can't
read the minds of the programmers who came up with something that doesn't
want to help the user get the job done.

Rod
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