Comments on: Merging for Dummies: Creating Address Labels in Word 2007

By: M. Elliott

M. Elliott — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:00:59 +0000

Please allow me to say THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a computer and software illerate small business owner who just took on a direct mail campaign of 10,000 pieces. From the start, I knew that it was possible to create labels, but had no clue as to the process. I used Google to find the info, but the instructions were incomplete or just too complicated (even the Dummies instructions did not work for me). I was almost ready to give-up until i came upon your site. The instructions were simple and straight-forward! You are a God-send…THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: John Baxter

John Baxter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:29:07 +0000

Hi,
Having a seemingly endless hassle with Access 2007.
I want to print labels but am getting lots of blank lines where there are no address items to include in them.
How do I lose these and tighten up the addresses?
I am not into codes etc, and am sure in old Access it was a tick box thing. I have no problem in Open Office or Ability.
Hope you can help before a jump out the window!

By: Gosia Grabowska

Gosia Grabowska — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:41:28 +0000

Hi SHoefong,
Thank you for your comment.
To add “Current Resident or” before the name simply type “Current Resident or” (and then hit Enter – that way it will be on the first line), before inserting the Address block or the field for “First_Name”.

Everything else is the same. Hope this helps!
Gosia

By: Shoefong Hu

Shoefong Hu — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:26:34 +0000

This was definitely the easiest and clearest site to learn how to make address labels in Excel. The illustrations helped a lot.

I have a question. I’d like to enter “Current Resident or” above the name. How do I do that?

Many thanks,
Shoefong

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:15:52 +0000

WOW!!! Thank you so much!!! Why cant Microsoft do their help site like this!!!!!!!

By: Gosia Grabowska

Gosia Grabowska — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:41:11 +0000

To answer Sudha question about adding borders to your labels.

There are two ways of getting a border around yoru labels:
1. You create the label from scratch and add a border. Then use this label in your mail merge.
2. You download a label with a border from Microsoft’s site. To do so, open Word 2007, click on Office Button (the one on the top, left corner), select New, and then click on Labels. I saw few labels with a border in the Mailing and Shipping Category for either Business or Holiday.

Good luck!
Gosia

By: Gosia Grabowska

Gosia Grabowska — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:21:24 +0000

Hi guys! Thank you for all the comments. I am working on answering all of your questions :) Promise! Let me start with a quick answer to Jim’s and Barry’s question.

Word 2007 is smart enough to remove the empty fields – you don’t need to do anything extra. Make sure you are inserting the fields (not typing them). Check out the “Another Way to Merge …” part and try it that way.

I just double check it and it works! :) If you still have a problem, let me know!

By: Barry Collin

Barry Collin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:02:57 +0000

I have spent 2 hours on the same problem as Jim Walsh – how to exclude blank lines on an address label because some of my addressees have all 6 address lines, others have anything from 2 to 5.
In Word 2000 I just ticked a box, and they were excluded, but not in Word 2007.
Please help, please – it’s driving me insane.

By: sudha acharya

sudha acharya — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:17:07 +0000

thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a lot for the informaton. it is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo useful. i’m glad to have visited you on this site. one more help needd… can we put border line arond each label? it wld be great if you have solution for this

love

sudha

By: Dae Schattie

Dae Schattie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:27:10 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you…This is the only site that “fully” explained how to print labels from excel 2007. I now can mail out my Christmas cards.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:54:17 +0000

THANK YOU!!!! We are trying to do our Holiday cards… and my husband about threw his computer across the room last year trying to figure this out. He finally did, but didn’t write it down. I am bookmarking this page for next year!!!

By: Mush

Mush — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:31:45 +0000

Thank you so much. I could never understand the instructions in my Word program. You made it so simple.

By: Emswyx

Emswyx — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:26:31 +0000

I need to make name cards for my school books….Can you help me please? I need to make it before the end of this December :(

By: Debbie Says

Debbie Says — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:50:35 +0000

Thank you so very much, I have beat my head against the concrete wall trying to figure this out. You made my life so much easier.

You are an Angel to me.

Thanks

By: Rosa

Rosa — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:32:19 +0000

Thank you so much. I love word 2007, but I am used to using word 2003 mail merge, was kind of lost with this. You made my work so easy. If some one can’t figure it out using these instructions, then they need to hand write their labels.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:57:41 +0000

Thank you so much. I’m new to Word 2007 and was lost on how to do this. I tried to use the Avery Wizard but it would work either. You saved my sanity.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:17:37 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!

I have a question, though. Before I ran accross this tutorial, I was trying to use the mail merge wizard to create my labels. I used the wizard when I had the old word and it always worked like a charm. In the new word, no matter what I’ve tried, it never continues with the next name/address on the next page.

Example:
Say our people are A, B, C, D, E, F & G.
Page one will have A, B & C, but page two begins with B and continues with C & D
Page 3 has C, D & E
Page 4 has D, E & F
And so on.

Do you know why this is? I’m thinking there must be a setting or option I am missing, but haven’t been able to figure it out yet.

Thank you,

Carrie

By: laura

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:25:39 +0000

It was very easy to follow the steps, so simple, and like Ashley says, it was the most helpful site that I found. Thank you very much. Laura

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:48:00 +0000

Thank you so much. Your demonstration was very easy to follow, I had no trouble printing my labels! Thank you so much. Jason

By: Sonia

Sonia — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:42:35 +0000

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