Creating Word Labels In Osx

[steakdog]

Can anyone tell me how to create mailing labels in word.vX for mac os x?

[Drewdatrip]

Create mailing labels

Are you preparing to send out a birth announcement? Wedding invitations? Greeting cards for your friends and family? The new Word Data Merge Manager — complete with built-in formats for most commercial mailing labels — makes it easy to print mailing labels with names and addresses from the Office Address Book.

In this project, you'll learn how to:

Prepare the main document for mailing labels.

Select a data source and add fields to your labels.

Preview and merge data from the Entourage Address Book.

Preparing the main document for mailing labels

When you create your mailing labels in Word, you first create a main document. The main document contains the instructions for your data merge, telling Word what information to include from the Office Address Book as well as how the information should be formatted and printed. When you create your mailing labels, Word combines the instructions from the main document with the information from the Office Address Book in a new document. More information on creating contacts in the address book.

On the Standard toolbar, click New Blank Document .

On the Tools menu, click Data Merge Manager.

Under Main Document, click Create, and then click Labels.

The Data Merge Manager

In the Label Options dialog box, under Printer information, click the type of printer you use.  

On the Label products pop-up menu, click the manufacturer of the labels you want to use.  

In the Product number list, click the type of label that you want to use.  

The height, width, and page size of the selected type appear under Label information.  

Click OK.

Tip   Save this document as Mailing Labels. You can re-use it as the main document the next time you want to print mailing labels.

Selecting the data source

In this project you'll use contact information from your Office Address Book. For more information about creating and organizing contacts in the Address book, see Organize contacts in the address book.

In the Data Merge Manager, under Data Source, click Get Data, and then click Office Address Book.

In the Edit Labels dialog box, click Insert Merge Field, and then click a field you want to appear on your labels. The inserted field appears in the Sample label box. Repeat step 2 for each field you want to add to the labels.

In the Sample label box, insert any spaces, returns, or other formatting that you want to appear between the fields in your label.

The Edit Labels dialog box

Click OK.  

The main document now contains the fields and layout that you specified in the Edit Labels dialog box.

Tip   After closing the Edit Labels dialog box, you can use the Formatting Palette to make text or formatting changes in the main document. For more information about editing the main document for labels, see Microsoft Word Help.

Previewing and merging the data

Before you print your mailing labels, you can preview them to make sure that they appear the way you want them to. When you preview your labels, Word displays the names and addresses for only one page of labels so that you can get an idea of what your labels will look like when they are printed. You can also change the layout and formatting while you are previewing your labels.

Open the main document.

In the Data Merge Manager, under Preview, click View Merged Data .

Word displays names and addresses from the Office Address Book in place of the merge fields.

Tip   To preview the label for a particular contact, click the arrow buttons, or type a record number in the Go to Record box .

When you are satisfied with the layout of your labels, click the Merge to New Document button  under Merge.

A new document containing your mailing labels is created. You can edit, print, save, or delete this document without affecting either the main document or the Office Address Book.

Note   Changes you make to the newly created mailing labels will not be reflected in the main document. If you modify the main document, you will need to merge it with the Address Book data again for the changes to be reflected in your mailing labels.

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