You're going to need to type them at some point (unless someone already has,
as Greg suggests), but by far the most efficient thing to do, insteadof
typing the individual labels, is to create a database that can be used as a
mail merge data source. The benefit of this is that you can reuse the data
source to create form letters, envelopes, or address books in addition to
address labels.
Although you can create this data source in Excel (and that's probably most
satisfactory for databases with many fields) or use Word's Mail Merge
Helper/Wizard to create an Access-style data source, the simplest data
source is just a Word table. The first row contains the names of the fields,
and the remaining rows contain the data, one field per column. How you
divide the fields depends on what you may later need to do with the data.
You mention only names; in this case I would suggest having at least two
fields: FirstName and LastName. This will allow you to list the names first
name first and still be able to sort by last name. The advantage of this
over just typing the labels directly is that if you want to add or remove
names, it is much more easily done in the data source.
For more on this subject, see these articles:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateADataSource.htm
If you have the names in Outlook already, see
http://www.gmayor.com/mailmerge_from_outlook.htm
For specific information about merging to labels, see the appropriate one of
these:
http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm (Word 2002 or 2003)
http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org