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Old March 8th, 2010, 09:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default turning tables into labels, possible?

No. It's possible you need to add a heading row to your table so that Word
has something to call the merge fields.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"strawberryangel83" wrote in
message ...
hey!!!! i just figured it out. i had to convert the table to text and
separate them with tab marks. save as, then just go and do a regular
merge
for labels using the save as document. was that what you all were trying
to
tell me to do?

"strawberryangel83" wrote:

someone sent me a mailing list as a table that has over 100 names on
there.
can i just convert the table into a mailing label format and print, so i
wont
have to start a new contact list in access and retype all that info
again?
the table has columns for: first name, last name, address, city, state,
zip.
can i even do a mail merge? i want simple. i dont care how it's done.
i
want a simple mail out without having to retype all of this. it's in
microsoft word 2007. thanks a bunch



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Old March 8th, 2010, 11:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
strawberryangel83
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Default turning tables into labels, possible?

The labels are done and everything. What i described below is what I needed
to do. There was a header row. However, there needed to be header row
delimiters to separate the data. So I chose for tabs to be the separaters.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No. It's possible you need to add a heading row to your table so that Word
has something to call the merge fields.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"strawberryangel83" wrote in
message ...
hey!!!! i just figured it out. i had to convert the table to text and
separate them with tab marks. save as, then just go and do a regular
merge
for labels using the save as document. was that what you all were trying
to
tell me to do?

"strawberryangel83" wrote:

someone sent me a mailing list as a table that has over 100 names on
there.
can i just convert the table into a mailing label format and print, so i
wont
have to start a new contact list in access and retype all that info
again?
the table has columns for: first name, last name, address, city, state,
zip.
can i even do a mail merge? i want simple. i dont care how it's done.
i
want a simple mail out without having to retype all of this. it's in
microsoft word 2007. thanks a bunch



.

  #13  
Old March 8th, 2010, 11:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.tables
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Posts: 31,786
Default turning tables into labels, possible?

But there was no need to convert the table to text. Word is quite happy with
a table as a data source; I use them all the time.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"strawberryangel83" wrote in
message ...
The labels are done and everything. What i described below is what I
needed
to do. There was a header row. However, there needed to be header row
delimiters to separate the data. So I chose for tabs to be the
separaters.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No. It's possible you need to add a heading row to your table so that
Word
has something to call the merge fields.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"strawberryangel83" wrote
in
message ...
hey!!!! i just figured it out. i had to convert the table to text and
separate them with tab marks. save as, then just go and do a regular
merge
for labels using the save as document. was that what you all were
trying
to
tell me to do?

"strawberryangel83" wrote:

someone sent me a mailing list as a table that has over 100 names on
there.
can i just convert the table into a mailing label format and print, so
i
wont
have to start a new contact list in access and retype all that info
again?
the table has columns for: first name, last name, address, city,
state,
zip.
can i even do a mail merge? i want simple. i dont care how it's
done.
i
want a simple mail out without having to retype all of this. it's in
microsoft word 2007. thanks a bunch


.


 




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