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Converting Labels to Access
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I'm challenged with this problem : I have inherited pages of address in label format. The Word document these labels are in are not in any sort of order and they are not part of a mail-merge document; they are simply addresses typed into Word. The user wants to do three things with them : 1) Be able to add, remove, change labels for printing, 2) select which labels should be printed, and 3) sort the labels. Basically the user wants the information in what I'd guess to be a database for manipulation purposes, and then mail-merge the selected addresses with Word to get address labels. If I were starting off cold, I'd simply construct an Access database for addresses. That would allow for editing, sorting and selection. Then I'd somehow figure out to merge only the selected addresses into Word label format: this I do not know how to do. This is my first question. And I'm presented with a situation I'd rather not face: do the addresses that are already typed into Word labels need to be re-typed into a database, or is there a way to auto-fill the database with the existing information? This is my second question. Thank you. |
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Converting Labels to Access
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMe...ToDatafile.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "ericm" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm challenged with this problem : I have inherited pages of address in label format. The Word document these labels are in are not in any sort of order and they are not part of a mail-merge document; they are simply addresses typed into Word. The user wants to do three things with them : 1) Be able to add, remove, change labels for printing, 2) select which labels should be printed, and 3) sort the labels. Basically the user wants the information in what I'd guess to be a database for manipulation purposes, and then mail-merge the selected addresses with Word to get address labels. If I were starting off cold, I'd simply construct an Access database for addresses. That would allow for editing, sorting and selection. Then I'd somehow figure out to merge only the selected addresses into Word label format: this I do not know how to do. This is my first question. And I'm presented with a situation I'd rather not face: do the addresses that are already typed into Word labels need to be re-typed into a database, or is there a way to auto-fill the database with the existing information? This is my second question. Thank you. |
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