Word 2002: Adding a single envelope

[Parish]

In earlier versions of Word IIRC you could (optionally) select an
address within the document then do something like Tools->Add Envelope
et voila! Word would add an envelope to the top of the doc complete with
the selected text. However, it doesn't appear to be that simple in Word
2002.

Searched Word Help and followed the instructions but the dialogue that
appears is different to the one described in Help.

Help says:

On the Tools menu, point to Letters and Mailings, and then click
Envelopes and Labels.
Click the Envelopes tab.
In the Delivery address box, enter or edit the mailing address.

[similar for the Return address]

Except the dialogue doesn't have a text box for the Delivery or Return
addresses.

To print the envelope now, insert an envelope in the printer
as shown in the Feed box, and then click Print.
To attach the envelope to the current document for later editing
or printing, click Add to Document. The envelope is added to the
document in a separate section.

Again, the dialogue doesn't have Print or Add To Document buttons.

So, how do I do it?

TIA

Regards,

Parish

 

[Graham Mayor]

It is still the same - though maybe in a different place.
Tools > letters & mailings > envelopes and labels
If the envelope and labels command isn't on the toolbar it is easy enough to
add from tools > customize.

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[Parish]

Graham Mayor wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply

It is still the same - though maybe in a different place.
Tools > letters & mailings > envelopes and labels

I've found that (sorry, didn't make it clear in my original post), but
the dialogue that appears when you select it different, i.e. lacking
"features", to the one that is described in Help.

Here's the dialogue I see (both tabs)....

http://users.nildram.co.uk/~parish/envelope_dialogue.jpg

There are no text boxes for the addresses on the Envelope Options tab
and no Print and Add To Dcoument buttons on the Printing Options tab.

Regards,

Parish

 

[Graham Mayor]

You have gone a window too far. From the dialog that you chose Options -
there's an option Add to Document.. I'd post a web link but my provider is
having some problems this week.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Those screen shots show the Envelope Options dialog. What you want is the
basic Envelopes and Labels dialog, which has not changed. If you are not
seeing Letters and Mailings | Envelopes and Labels on your Tools menu, then
perhaps you have adaptive menus enabled. Open Tools | Customize, select the
Options tab, and check the box for "Always show full menus." To make the
dialog more accessible, select Envelopes and Labels from the Tools category
on the Commands tab of Tools | Customize and drag it to a toolbar.

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[Parish]

You have gone a window too far. From the dialog that you chose Options -
there's an option Add to Document.. I'd post a web link but my provider is
having some problems this week.

No, that's the dialogue that appears when I select Tools->Letters &
Mailings->Envelopes and Labels.

I've just been reading the Help again and it says that one of the tabs
should be "Envelopes", but I don't see that.

Searching the 'net I found this

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/userimages/ai203.gif

in a tutorial at

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=72

Is that what you are saying I should see (fits the description in Help)?
If so, then I don't :-(

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Parish

 

[Parish]

Those screen shots show the Envelope Options dialog. What you want is the
basic Envelopes and Labels dialog, which has not changed. If you are not
seeing Letters and Mailings | Envelopes and Labels on your Tools menu, then
perhaps you have adaptive menus enabled. Open Tools | Customize, select the

See my last reply to Graham but, just to make sure that I'm not being
really braindead, then this is the option from the Tools menu that you
are both referring to, yes?

http://users.nildram.co.uk/~parish/tools_menu.jpg

If so, then that is the one I am using and the dialogue that opens when
I select it is Envelope Options, there is no intermediate dialogue.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Parish

 

[Graham Mayor]

Never mind what it says in help. The option you want is in the dialog Tools

letters & mailings >envelopes and labels. There is a row of buttons on the

right - one of which you clicked to get options. The one you want is Add to
Document. It was ever thus.

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[Parish]

Never mind what it says in help. The option you want is in the dialog
Tools >letters & mailings >envelopes and labels.

That's what I'm selecting, http://users.nildram.co.uk/~parish/tools_menu.jpg

There is a row of buttons on the right - one of which you clicked to
get options. The one you want is Add to Document.

But I don't see a dialogue with an Options button, the Envelope Options
dialogue is what appears _when I select_ Tools >letters & mailings

envelopes and labels.

It was ever thus.

Hmmm, I wonder if Word is broken on my machine? Maybe I'll try
re-installing it :-(

Regards,

Parish

 

[Graham Mayor]

There is certainly an intermediate dialog. If yours is missing, you may have
a minor registry corruption. See
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm or
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm

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[Parish]

There is certainly an intermediate dialog. If yours is missing, you may have
a minor registry corruption. See
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm or
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm

Well, this is really bizarre. I started a new document and in that one I
see the dialogue that you are referring to.

I opened several other existing Word docs and see the dialogue in all of
those too, it's just this one document - the one I actually want an
envelope for.

I tried saving this rogue doc under a different name, in a different
folder, closing and re-starting Word, and loading the new copy - still
not working.

I tried the reg hack on the web page you linked to - still doesn't work.

So, it seems that it is just this one document which seems strange to
say the least. Any idea as to why that might be?

Thanks for you help (and patience).

Regards,

Parish

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, that's the one. Not a very good screen shot (well, I guess Dian has a
weird color scheme), but the right dialog.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This strongly suggests that (a) the document is corrupt (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm) or (b) the template on
which the document is based has had some ill-advised menu surgery.

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[Parish]

This strongly suggests that (a) the document is corrupt (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm)

Ouch, that reads like a horror story :-O

or (b) the template on
which the document is based has had some ill-advised menu surgery.

I didn't realize that menu-related stuff was stored in the
document/template. The doc I had the problem with was created on the
same machine I am using but as a different (Windows) user so I guess
that user has something screwed up - I'll investigate when I get time.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Parish

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Custom menus and menu customizations are stored in templates (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm), but by
default they're stored in Normal.dot (you have to know what you're doing to
intentionally save them in a document template), and if you got the document
from someone else, a template issue would be a real long shot since you
wouldn't have the template the document was based on, anyway.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Parish]

Custom menus and menu customizations are stored in templates (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm), but by
default they're stored in Normal.dot (you have to know what you're doing to
intentionally save them in a document template), and if you got the document
from someone else, a template issue would be a real long shot since you
wouldn't have the template the document was based on, anyway.

Thanks for the explanation, I always thought that templates were just
used to store things like paper size, margins, default font, paragraph
indents, line spacing etc.

I'll save a copy of this thread for future reference. To be honest I
have no need of Word (or any word processor) most of the time; the only
reason I use Word is because it came pre-installed and people keep
sending me Word docs (sometimes with just one line of text) in e-mails.

Regards,

Parish