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Copying address from letter onto envelope
The secretary in our office has been using WordPerfect for years and has been
asked to convert to Word. She would previously create our billings as a letter-style WordPerfect document then copy and paste the mailing address onto the envelope and print both. We would like her to do this same process in Word, but it seems to have a lot more steps. The only way that we can find to get the address onto the envelope seems to involve going through a number of dialog boxes. Is there anyway to set up a document to be an envelope so she can paste it into the document and push print? I have also heard that there is a setting which will allow Word to recognize addresses and create an envelope for them by clicking on the address. Is this true? Will either of these ideas work, is there a better way than these or are the dialog boxes the only option? Thanks, Renee |
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Copying address from letter onto envelope
From within your Word document you can choose:
Tools Letters & Mailings Envelopes & Labels This will cause the address in the document to populate the box on the screen. You can choose OPTIONS and change the size of the envelope so that it will print correctly. Then choose PRINT and the printer will, in most cases, prompt for an envelope to be inserted in the manual feed tray. You can also choose ADD TO DOCUMENT and it will put an image of the envelope in your document. -- JEverhart "Renee Clough" wrote: The secretary in our office has been using WordPerfect for years and has been asked to convert to Word. She would previously create our billings as a letter-style WordPerfect document then copy and paste the mailing address onto the envelope and print both. We would like her to do this same process in Word, but it seems to have a lot more steps. The only way that we can find to get the address onto the envelope seems to involve going through a number of dialog boxes. Is there anyway to set up a document to be an envelope so she can paste it into the document and push print? I have also heard that there is a setting which will allow Word to recognize addresses and create an envelope for them by clicking on the address. Is this true? Will either of these ideas work, is there a better way than these or are the dialog boxes the only option? Thanks, Renee |
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Copying address from letter onto envelope
Thanks - I have Word 2007 and this works well in my version. It
automatically recognizes the address and sets it up on the envelope. The secretary has Word 2003 however and it doesn't seem to automatically recognize the address. Is there anyway to get this feature for 2003? Renee "JEverhart" wrote: From within your Word document you can choose: Tools Letters & Mailings Envelopes & Labels This will cause the address in the document to populate the box on the screen. You can choose OPTIONS and change the size of the envelope so that it will print correctly. Then choose PRINT and the printer will, in most cases, prompt for an envelope to be inserted in the manual feed tray. You can also choose ADD TO DOCUMENT and it will put an image of the envelope in your document. -- JEverhart "Renee Clough" wrote: The secretary in our office has been using WordPerfect for years and has been asked to convert to Word. She would previously create our billings as a letter-style WordPerfect document then copy and paste the mailing address onto the envelope and print both. We would like her to do this same process in Word, but it seems to have a lot more steps. The only way that we can find to get the address onto the envelope seems to involve going through a number of dialog boxes. Is there anyway to set up a document to be an envelope so she can paste it into the document and push print? I have also heard that there is a setting which will allow Word to recognize addresses and create an envelope for them by clicking on the address. Is this true? Will either of these ideas work, is there a better way than these or are the dialog boxes the only option? Thanks, Renee |
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Copying address from letter onto envelope
With Word 2003, if the address is all in one paragraph (with each new line
created by using Shift+Enter, rather than Enter) when that paragraph is selected when an envelope is accessed by selecting Letters and Mailings from the Tools menu and then Envelopes and Labels, the full address appears in the Delivery Address control on the Envelope tab (and in the Address control on the Labels tab) of the Envelopes and Labels dialog. Of course, I would really suggest that you automate the whole process by creating a template that contains both the envelope and the letter and have a userform in that template into which the user either enters the details of the addressee, or better, selects them from a list that would appear in a combobox that is populated from an external data source that you probably already have, and then when the user clicks on a button on that form, the necessary details would be transferred both into the envelope and into the letter in the required places. See the article "How to create a Userform" at: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Userforms/CreateAUserForm.htm -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Renee Clough" wrote in message ... Thanks - I have Word 2007 and this works well in my version. It automatically recognizes the address and sets it up on the envelope. The secretary has Word 2003 however and it doesn't seem to automatically recognize the address. Is there anyway to get this feature for 2003? Renee "JEverhart" wrote: From within your Word document you can choose: Tools Letters & Mailings Envelopes & Labels This will cause the address in the document to populate the box on the screen. You can choose OPTIONS and change the size of the envelope so that it will print correctly. Then choose PRINT and the printer will, in most cases, prompt for an envelope to be inserted in the manual feed tray. You can also choose ADD TO DOCUMENT and it will put an image of the envelope in your document. -- JEverhart "Renee Clough" wrote: The secretary in our office has been using WordPerfect for years and has been asked to convert to Word. She would previously create our billings as a letter-style WordPerfect document then copy and paste the mailing address onto the envelope and print both. We would like her to do this same process in Word, but it seems to have a lot more steps. The only way that we can find to get the address onto the envelope seems to involve going through a number of dialog boxes. Is there anyway to set up a document to be an envelope so she can paste it into the document and push print? I have also heard that there is a setting which will allow Word to recognize addresses and create an envelope for them by clicking on the address. Is this true? Will either of these ideas work, is there a better way than these or are the dialog boxes the only option? Thanks, Renee |
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If Word cannot automatically detect the address in your document, then
select the address before running the envelope tool and the selected text will be trasferred to the dialog. Applying a different paragraph style to the addressee information in the letter to that of the following text will help Word recognize the address. I recommend using Word's InsideAddress style for this. You can edit the style in the template to provide the appearance you want. You may find http://www.gmayor.com/changing_envelope_layout.htm and http://www.gmayor.com/Alternative_Return_Addresses.htm useful. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Renee Clough wrote: Thanks - I have Word 2007 and this works well in my version. It automatically recognizes the address and sets it up on the envelope. The secretary has Word 2003 however and it doesn't seem to automatically recognize the address. Is there anyway to get this feature for 2003? Renee "JEverhart" wrote: From within your Word document you can choose: Tools Letters & Mailings Envelopes & Labels This will cause the address in the document to populate the box on the screen. You can choose OPTIONS and change the size of the envelope so that it will print correctly. Then choose PRINT and the printer will, in most cases, prompt for an envelope to be inserted in the manual feed tray. You can also choose ADD TO DOCUMENT and it will put an image of the envelope in your document. -- JEverhart "Renee Clough" wrote: The secretary in our office has been using WordPerfect for years and has been asked to convert to Word. She would previously create our billings as a letter-style WordPerfect document then copy and paste the mailing address onto the envelope and print both. We would like her to do this same process in Word, but it seems to have a lot more steps. The only way that we can find to get the address onto the envelope seems to involve going through a number of dialog boxes. Is there anyway to set up a document to be an envelope so she can paste it into the document and push print? I have also heard that there is a setting which will allow Word to recognize addresses and create an envelope for them by clicking on the address. Is this true? Will either of these ideas work, is there a better way than these or are the dialog boxes the only option? Thanks, Renee |
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