Hi lele,
I take if from your post that you have no problem with Mail Merge with
Excel as the database -- just with the run around in setting it up.
Sorry, that is the choice that Microsoft gives you for printing envelopes,
labels, and customizing letters with Excal as the database.

Having worked through this on your own you might not be aware that
if you use a filtered list that you can send only those that are showing
to the MS Word Mail Merge application.

Mail Merge, Printing Labels using Mail Merge with data from Excel
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm

Auto Filter on my Summarizing Data Examples (an Overview)
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...htm#autofilter

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
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"lele" wrote ...
I have an excel database of addresses and I want to print off envelopes with
the addresses I have listed in this document. I have read about linking excel
with mail merge, but is there a faster method? More often I want to be able
to print off envelopes 2 or 3 at a time, so to use mail merge seems
time-consuming. Is there a way through formulas to somehow transfer for
example one row of data into word and it generate into an address format. Or
even better is there an envelope printing function in excel, as in word?