I am trying to set up a data base of names for a mailing list, and then make
it retrievable into a letter format or just envelope addressing. Anyone
with information on how to help me would be greatly appreciated. It has been
years since my college days and learning macros and such.

No macros necessary. Use Excel to store the data: Row 1 is column headings,
row 2 your first record (address), row 3 your second record, etc. Save it,
close it.
Open Word, do a mail merge.
http://www.officearticles.com/word/m...osoft_word.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"workingwoods" wrote in message
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I am trying to set up a data base of names for a mailing list, and then
make
it retrievable into a letter format or just envelope addressing. Anyone
with information on how to help me would be greatly appreciated. It has
been
years since my college days and learning macros and such.

Hello-

IMHO, you'll be far better off to store your list of records in an XL file &
use Word for the docs to merger the record data into.

See:

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/E...MailMerges.htm

for some good, clear advice.

HTH |:)

"workingwoods" wrote:

I am trying to set up a data base of names for a mailing list, and then make
it retrievable into a letter format or just envelope addressing. Anyone
with information on how to help me would be greatly appreciated. It has been
years since my college days and learning macros and such.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...AMailMerge.htm and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/...DataSource.htm.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"workingwoods" wrote in message
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I am trying to set up a data base of names for a mailing list, and then
make
it retrievable into a letter format or just envelope addressing. Anyone
with information on how to help me would be greatly appreciated. It has
been
years since my college days and learning macros and such.

No-one has mentioned Outlook which is the obvious place to store addresses
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
That aside, Word can use a variety of data formats, but the most reliable is
to use a Word table.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


workingwoods wrote:
I am trying to set up a data base of names for a mailing list, and
then make it retrievable into a letter format or just envelope
addressing. Anyone with information on how to help me would be
greatly appreciated. It has been years since my college days and
learning macros and such.