| Making address labels for letters and parcels can be a | | | | not to put in the same address twice. Word has a |
| real chore. It's something that has stood in the way of | | | | wizard to help you do this: just go to the File menu, |
| all sorts of people, whether they are large-scale eBay | | | | then New, and then choose 'Mailing Label Wizard' from |
| sellers or simply office workers who need to post a | | | | under 'Letters and Faxes'. Point it to your database, |
| big batch of letters. | | | | and you should be good to go. |
| What you might not have realised, though, is that | | | | The final step in making address labels is a physical |
| making address labels can be easy when you know | | | | one. Sure, you've got your fancy software that can |
| how. The best way to do it is to compose your letters | | | | make mailing labels, but unless you want to cut the |
| using a Mail Merge function in the first place, such as | | | | addresses out from pieces of paper and use tape or |
| the one that comes with Microsoft Word. This means | | | | glue, you're also going to need to get some sticky |
| that your addresses are being stored not in the | | | | labels and put them in your printer. You can obviously |
| documents themselves, but in either a spreadsheet or | | | | find them at any good office supplies or stationery |
| a database. The documents then contain a 'field', which | | | | store, but make sure to get a size that Word knows |
| is a special area where the program knows the | | | | about, so it can lay the labels out correctly for you. |
| address should go. | | | | You can check the label sizes Word has available in |
| Once you have split your addresses from your | | | | the last stage of the Mailing Label Wizard, after you |
| documents in this way, you should find it much easier | | | | point it to your database - don't worry too much, |
| to make address labels. All you need to do is open a | | | | though, as few manufacturers will bother to make |
| page and insert a lot of address fields, with a 'next | | | | labels in a size incompatible with Word. |
| record' field in between each one to tell the software | | | | |