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Title: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: dazie on December 04, 2008, 02:13:03 PM
Is there a way to merge labels in word so that I make 100 labels of address 1, 100 labels of address 2 etc. without having to put each address in my data source 100 times?
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: Gamplayerx on December 04, 2008, 02:14:55 PM
Yes.  I believe you tell the label setting to do an entire page for each.
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: dazie on December 04, 2008, 02:27:42 PM
I can tell it that if I'm not trying to merge, but I can't find that setting in merge.
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: meredith on December 04, 2008, 02:50:41 PM
Remove all the [Next Record] codes on the page except for on the last label?

(I haven't used Word in a few years.)
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: dazie on December 04, 2008, 03:28:06 PM
I am going to be cautiously optimistic, as I wait for my labels to generate, and say, in advance, that Hatt- you rock.
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: meredith on December 04, 2008, 03:37:10 PM
"1322: Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was fatally speared through the anus by a pikeman hiding under the bridge during the Battle of Boroughbridge."

i giggled at this.  lolol what a fag!
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: dazie on December 04, 2008, 05:13:27 PM
OK- that made no sense.

But here's what I figured out, with Hatt's help: 

In order to make an entire sheet of labels be the same address in mail merge, you need to delete every single <<next record>> from your merge set up page.  Then, when you click merge, you will get 1 address per sheet.  In this particular document, I ended up with 131 sheets, each with 30 labels containing the same address.
Title: Re: Word Mail Merge help
Post by: Dry then Catch on December 04, 2008, 06:16:36 PM
there is this Avery Label Maker software that i've used int he past.  I don't remember the details but I had similar task and it seemed more intuitive than word

http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-&-Software