Jay & Suzanne - thanks for responding so quickly and with good solutions. But
you have made me realize I may be focusing on one task instead of the "big
picture". The list of addresses I have now in a word doc is a list of people
for a community fund raising project. In other words, we'll prob be
contacting some of these people again with letters, tracking pledges, etc. So
I'll be sending out envelopes & letters on an ongoing basis for a while.
Should I just manually type these names into an address book? I've not used
Outlook but I have it....... Or should I set up the names in Excel?
......Suggestions please!!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If this is a one-time job, the simplest approach is to create a
single-column data source with the entire address in a single cell. If each
address is a single paragraph, that's a very simple Convert Text to Table
operation, separating at paragraphs.
If each line is a paragraph but there is an empty paragraph between
addresses, then that's almost as simple. It just requires replacing
paragraph breaks (^p) with line breaks (^l) and then replacing two line
breaks (^l^l) with a paragraph break, then converting the text to a table,
separating at paragraphs.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
You're going to have to do some work to rearrange the data into a mail
merge source document. See
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm for instructions.
After that's ready, you can run mail merges to envelopes just as easilly
as to labels.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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Blue Bunny wrote:
I have Office 2003. I have been given a list of addresses in a word
document. The names and addresses are not in a table....format looks
like this:
Mr and Mrs John Jones
123 Somewhere Lane
Little City, VA 12345
Jane Smith
456 Main Street
Big Town, NC 67890
I have probably 150+ names.
I need to print envelopes for each address and I need to put a return
address on the envelope. My boss would like a logo included in the
return address. She does not want to use labels.
I need help. And since I'm not overly familiar with anything except
printing one envelope for a single letter I need detailed
directions!!!
Can anyone help me? I have to have this completed by mid-day
tomorrow, Thur. 7/24/08!!