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Label problem
I posted this problem on another Word newsgroup and got nothing. I'm hoping
I get better luck here. This is the question: I'm helping a friend print address labels from an Excel sheet as I'm 'supposed to know about computers' but I've never used mail merge before. By trial and error (and the wizard) I got the end result OK but it was a long time getting there as the labels had to be created manually and the column headers matched to the right fields and then the labels formatted correctly. He now has a different Excel sheet to make labels from and now I'm stumped. I saved the previous mail merge and hoped I could use it again and after going through various screens and pointing it at the right source, the correct labels show up, but only the first page. There should be at least 3 or 4 pages. I tried using the wizard route again but each time I end up having to rematch the fields and reformat the labels. I'd hoped that using the saved mail merge would work but I'm obvioulsy doing something wrong. If someone could tell me what I should be doing, I'd be most grateful. Office 2003 WinXP SP2 Cheers |
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See the article "Mailmerge Labels with Word XP" on fellow MVP Graham Mayor's
website at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.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 "Neil" sherbaal@ yahoo.com wrote in message ... I posted this problem on another Word newsgroup and got nothing. I'm hoping I get better luck here. This is the question: I'm helping a friend print address labels from an Excel sheet as I'm 'supposed to know about computers' but I've never used mail merge before. By trial and error (and the wizard) I got the end result OK but it was a long time getting there as the labels had to be created manually and the column headers matched to the right fields and then the labels formatted correctly. He now has a different Excel sheet to make labels from and now I'm stumped. I saved the previous mail merge and hoped I could use it again and after going through various screens and pointing it at the right source, the correct labels show up, but only the first page. There should be at least 3 or 4 pages. I tried using the wizard route again but each time I end up having to rematch the fields and reformat the labels. I'd hoped that using the saved mail merge would work but I'm obvioulsy doing something wrong. If someone could tell me what I should be doing, I'd be most grateful. Office 2003 WinXP SP2 Cheers |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...th_word_xp.htm but it sounds
like you have not completed the merge. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Neil wrote: I posted this problem on another Word newsgroup and got nothing. I'm hoping I get better luck here. This is the question: I'm helping a friend print address labels from an Excel sheet as I'm 'supposed to know about computers' but I've never used mail merge before. By trial and error (and the wizard) I got the end result OK but it was a long time getting there as the labels had to be created manually and the column headers matched to the right fields and then the labels formatted correctly. He now has a different Excel sheet to make labels from and now I'm stumped. I saved the previous mail merge and hoped I could use it again and after going through various screens and pointing it at the right source, the correct labels show up, but only the first page. There should be at least 3 or 4 pages. I tried using the wizard route again but each time I end up having to rematch the fields and reformat the labels. I'd hoped that using the saved mail merge would work but I'm obvioulsy doing something wrong. If someone could tell me what I should be doing, I'd be most grateful. Office 2003 WinXP SP2 Cheers |
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Thanks, I just read the document and I'm still puzzled.
I've read about not 'completing the merge' before but I still can't see where I 'complete the merge'. I followed the walkthrough step by step and its just as I did the merge right up to where I'm supposed to merge to document or printer. At this point I get just one page of labels and the walkthrough tells me again I didn't complete the merge. At what point am I not completing the merge? I'll just add I never used the toolbar, didn't even know there was one! Thanks. |
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I would suggest that you do use the toolbar. It has buttons on it for
executing the merge to the various possible destinations. If you use the appropriate one of those buttons the merge WILL be executed. -- 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 "Neil" sherbaal@ yahoo.com wrote in message ... Thanks, I just read the document and I'm still puzzled. I've read about not 'completing the merge' before but I still can't see where I 'complete the merge'. I followed the walkthrough step by step and its just as I did the merge right up to where I'm supposed to merge to document or printer. At this point I get just one page of labels and the walkthrough tells me again I didn't complete the merge. At what point am I not completing the merge? I'll just add I never used the toolbar, didn't even know there was one! Thanks. |
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You have to actually merge to document or printer etc to complete the merge.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Neil wrote: Thanks, I just read the document and I'm still puzzled. I've read about not 'completing the merge' before but I still can't see where I 'complete the merge'. I followed the walkthrough step by step and its just as I did the merge right up to where I'm supposed to merge to document or printer. At this point I get just one page of labels and the walkthrough tells me again I didn't complete the merge. At what point am I not completing the merge? I'll just add I never used the toolbar, didn't even know there was one! Thanks. |
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if you are using the Mail Merge Wizard and are working with a Label merge,
when you get to "Step 5 of 6" in the Wizard's task pane, you should see the following options at the bottom of the pane: Next: Complete the merge Previous: Arrange your labels Select the "Next: Complete the merge" option, and you move to Step 6 of 6.But even then, you are not quite done, because you either need to click the Print... option, which should print the labels, or the "Edit Individual Labels" option, which really just outputs the merge to a new document, at which point you can edit the new document as necessary, then print it. If you're doing a lot of merges, using the toolbar is often quicker once you've got used to it, as others have doubtless said. Peter Jamieson "Neil" sherbaal@ yahoo.com wrote in message ... Thanks, I just read the document and I'm still puzzled. I've read about not 'completing the merge' before but I still can't see where I 'complete the merge'. I followed the walkthrough step by step and its just as I did the merge right up to where I'm supposed to merge to document or printer. At this point I get just one page of labels and the walkthrough tells me again I didn't complete the merge. At what point am I not completing the merge? I'll just add I never used the toolbar, didn't even know there was one! Thanks. |
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