Word 2000 : Features and Tools    Printing Labels with Mail Merge  

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1   Labels are useful for aaddressing envelopes, packages, making name tags or label...
2   Click New icon in the words to create a new document
3   To tell Words that you want to create Labels, Click Tools
4   The pull down menu for Tools appears
5   Choose Mail Merge from the menu
6   The
7   Click Create and choose the type of main document you want to create.
8   Choose Active Window to make the document on your screen the main document.
9   If you already have a Data Source created, you can open and use it To opena an e...
10   A pull down menu appears
11   Choose Open Data Source.
12   Find and Click the name of the data source you want to open.
13   Click Open.
14   Click Setup Main Document to set up the labels
15   A box for labels options appear here You can choose the options according to you...
16   Click Ok to continue
17   A dialog box appears where it will allow you to create your labels
18   Type a label for one person as shown
19   Select an area of text that you want to change in each label
20   Click Insert Merge Field to display the merge field list
21   Click the merge fields that corresponds to the text that you have typed
22   The merge field replaces the text as shown
23   Repeat the same steps till you finish inserting all the merge fields that you wa...
24   Click OK to continue
25   A dialog box appears to confirm you want to replace the exisiting main document ...
26   Click Close to close the Mail Merger dialog box
27   The labels with the merge fields that you selected appears
28   Click Merge to New document icon to merge the labels and the data source
29   A new document appears It contains a personalized label for every person on your...
30   A label can be editted as you can edit any other documents
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