[Trainer]

Thanks for all of the great suggestions. You folks are the best!.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Unless you're using a lot of unusual sizes, you can usually just look at a
sheet/page of the labels and see how many there a 6, 10, 20, 30, 80.
These are all very common Avery labels. There are many variations on them
(there will be different stock numbers for laser and inkjet, white and
colored or clear), but the basic layout will be the same. So you find out
the number of labels and then look in your supplies closet to see what you
have that matches.* g

If push comes to shove, you look at the Table Properties to figure out
what
size each label is; then you can compare the dimensions against Word's
label
definitions (or, probably more efficiently, against Avery's stock list
online or in an Office Depot or Staples catalog).

*FWIW, I did just this a few hours ago. My husband came in and asked if I
could make him some more SASE address labels. I managed to find the label
document, saw that it had 30 on the page, and then rummaged through my
labels to find Avery 5160, which has 30 labels per sheet.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Trainer" wrote in message
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Okay, the Summary tab is a good idea which I will begin to use. But if
that wasn't done, there's no way to know what size label was used in an
existing label merge? .


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I put it in the document Properties, in the Comment field or some other
on
the Summary tab.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Trainer" wrote in message
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Once a label mail merge is performed and saved, how can a person who
later opens it know what size labels to use? I don't see any indicator
to idenitfy the label size. How would anyone know that it was Avery
5163 labels? Short of placing that information in the header, do you
know of any hidden places that reveal the label size?

Thanks