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Peter Jamieson
 
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Default Moving addresses round on mail merge labels?

I hope your printer will work with incomplete label sheets - there's usually
a warning with the labels because the sheets can ge stuck in some printers.

Printing partial sheets isn't different in principle from printing complete
sheets: in essence, each label occupies a cell in a table. If for example
you have sheets containing 4 rows of 3 labels and you just have the last row
of 3 labels left, delete the first 3 rows of fields, and the { NEXT } field
(Next record) field from first label in the remaining row. Then complete
the merge.

However, if the different sheets have different labels left, it will be much
harder as you will probably have to merge the correct records onto each
sheet, one sheet at a time. If you have a lot of sheets, I'd try to sort
them so you can batch up each "layout" of sheet. An alternative might be to
merge to a new document and manually edit|cut and paste the labels in their
correct positions.

When I try to
print, nothing happens.


Assuming none of that makes any difference, What exactly are you looking at
when you print, and how are you initiating the print? Are you looking at the
mail merge main document, pre-merge? An output document, post-merge? Or
what?

Peter Jamieson
"dafttart100" wrote in message
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I'm trying to do a mail merge between Outlook and Word. When printing, I
want to force it to write the addresses onto specific label areas to use
up
old labels sheets where only one or two labels may be left. When I try to
print, nothing happens. Can you help please?