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Default Printing on stickers

If you have MSWord, you can use excel to hold the data and MSWord to print the
labels.

(saved from a previous post)

You may find that using excel for your data and MSWord for your invoice looks
prettier.

You may want to read some tips for mailmerge.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/mailmerg.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMerge

The first is from David McRitchie and the second is by Beth Melton and Dave
Rado.

And just in case you have text that needs to be formatted (percentages, for
example):

Debra Dalgleish posted this:

There's an article on the Microsoft web site that might help you:

Answer Box: Numbers don't merge right in Word
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/as...164951033.aspx

And if you prefer the old Mail Merge helper, Word MVP Suzanne Barnhill
has instructions he

http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm

about half way down the page.

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I often cheat instead of racking my brain.

I'll insert another column (probably hidden!) and use:
=text(a2,"00000")
(or whatever format I want)
and use that field in the mailmerge.

(Cheating doesn't bother me anymore <vbg.)

MnS wrote:

Hi there,
I have a 20Rx10C table and columns are headings like Name Sirname phone
number etc.
I have given a task to print all that data on stickers(10,5x4cm) in a format
like

Name Sirname
Phone number
Adress
Note

I've heard there is a way to do this with excel automatically. Any idea to
achive this?
Thank you for you help
Mns


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Dave Peterson