well, the mail merge works
by merging data from a listing
or database onto a "form".
"the form" can be a letter like those
used for mass mailings or envelopes,
labels, invitations, etc.
the sheet of labels you made and
saved as a doc file can be used at
any time to print on a regular sheet
of paper or cardstock or labels.
the printer doesn't care what you run through
the printer heads as it will print the
image on the screen, in this case the
image will be your customized sheet
you saved.
for all practical purposes a sheet
of labels is processed like any sheet
of paper by the printer. similarly,
envelopes are printed by the printer
as if they were simply 4 by 9 sheets
of paper.
the final outcome will be that
the printer prints whatever the
image you see on the screen on whatever
medium is being fed through the printer
including a sheet of paper layered
with small sticky squares, (labels).
i think that maybe when you are selecting
the label template you may not be skipping
the step where you are pre-asked
for the return address. actually you
would want to customize the sheet
manually.
after you select the label template,
a document with a table of blank
cells should appear on the screen.
however, you may have to select the
show table gridlines to see these cells.
after you customize a cell with
your image and return address you
can then copy that set into the other
cells. then save your customized
sheet of labels as a document. you might
want to save it as mylabels.doc
whenever you pull up mylabels.doc
it can easily be printed by the printer onto
a sheet of labels if you run label paper
through it. however, you can also run
regular paper, colored paper, etc.; as you
may already know that the printer doesn't
care if you actually use label paper.
in fact when making labels, it is
a good idea to initially print the
labels onto a regular sheet of paper.
this way it will be less costly to
inspect the final product rather than
wasting sheets of labels due to
formatting flaws or experimenting.
now for mail merging, mylabels.doc
having 6 cells, each cell an image and a return
address can be used as if it were a form letter.
this means that each cell will need a set
of merge fields underneath the image
and your return address. each cell will
have a set of merge fields so that data
can be inserted into them by the mail
merge generator.
after the merge is complete and each
cell has your image and return address
and a unique mailing address, you can
save it as a document and to print at
any time. you would likely want to
save this final document as
mymailinglabels.doc
also, if you decide in the
future you want to print a single
label from the entire sheet, then
you simply clear/delete the information
from those cells you don't want to print
leaving behind the one(s) to be printed.
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is the above inline to your
question?
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