Topic: Labels

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Backing Up Label Layouts If you’ve developed custom label layouts in Word, you may want to protect your investment. This tip discusses ways that you can back up those layouts so that they are available for another system or in case of system failure. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Changing Label Printing Order When creating labels during a mail merge, the labels on a page are filled out from left to right and top to bottom. If you want the fill order to be different, you must make some changes to your data or use one of the other workarounds in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Creating Labels Using Word to create and print labels is a snap. All you need to do is provide the text you want on the labels, pick a type of label, and then format the text to best fit the label you chose. This tip shows how to do it all, step by step. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Creating One-time Labels How to create labels you will use only once. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Doubling Your Money Make your printer labels stretch farther. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Finding Long Lines Tired of paragraphs “spilling over” onto additional lines and ruining your labels? This tip discusses ways you can pinpoint those troublesome paragraphs. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Formatting Labels How to easily format the labels you create in Word. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Getting Rid of Blank Labels in a Filtered Merge If you are filtering a mail merge in Excel, and you get blank labels in the printout, chances are good that something is going wrong. (Filtering should suppress those blank labels.) This tip provides some guidance on what you should look for in your merge document to get the desired results. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Graphics in Address Labels Learn how to add graphics to the address labels you print in Word. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Left and Right Aligned on One Line in a Label If you need to put information on a label that has both left- and right-aligned information on the same line, it can be frustrating to get the formatting just right. Here’s the steps you need to follow to get just what you need. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Making Use of Extra Labels Got extra labels left over after printing a mail merge? Here’s what you can do to put those labels to good use. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Picking a Starting Label When doing a mail merge to labels, you may want to have the label document start with a label other than the first one. Word doesn’t provide a way to do this, but there are a couple of things you can try to get the results you desire. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Printing Multiple Label Copies When Merging When merging data into a Word document to create labels, you may want a way to create multiple copies of individual labels. There are two approaches you can take, as described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Printing Return Address Labels How to print return address labels using Word. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Saving Money on Printing Labels Labels can be expensive, and a little common sense will help you waste less money as you try to get your labels to appear “just right.” This tip provides a few ideas you can put to work right away. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Sequentially Numbered Labels Need to create labels with sequential numbers? Here are some tips to get that accomplished. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Setting Default Label Formats How to define different formats you can use for your labels. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Specifying a Label Stock for Saved Documents When you create a document designed to be printed on a particular type of label stock, it might be helpful if Word remembered which label stock the document was designed for. Unfortunately, that information is not maintained with the document. You can, however, note the information so it is always available using one of the techniques in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

Use Good Quality Labels If you use the wrong kind of labels with your printer, you are asking for big trouble. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Using the Address Book Ways to use the address book when printing envelopes and labels. Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95 | 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003

Vertically Centering Labels Want the text printed on your labels to be centered vertically? It’s not that hard, and this tip shows the easiest method. Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 | 2007

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