Can someone help me Do a mail merger in Windows XP word ???

[leeland]

hello
i am trying to set up addresses for my wedding for the invitations, so i don't have to write them all out by hand. I want to just use clear labels and put everyone's name into the computer and be able to print them all out on clear lablels...

Is their a way to do this on WORD XP ??? i have a friend at work who's husband did a mail merger for their wedding and said it worked awsome so i want to do it lol.


any help appreciated


P.S. i am off to walmart to get my clear labels for my printer right now


leeland

 

[minendo]

What are you using as your source file? Word, excel, access?

 

[minendo]

Actually even easier for a n00b as yourself is to go to the tools menu in word XP and select the mail merge wizard.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i assume you have your names and addresses in someother electronic format... excel or access or your PDA?

get your addys into an excel sheet and use Words merge wizard or help function. its easy and you can do yourself.

EDIT: if you got your addys on a PalmOS device, just highlight all the addys and drag and drop to the word icon at the bottom of the desktop interface.

 

[leeland]

hey all thanks for replying so fast

to answer some questions

1.) i am using windows XP office,

2.) I don't have any addresses in electronic format as of right now

if i were to do it in excel how do i go about doing it ???
would it be in the format of something like this for each row ???

leeland noob 222 johnson street waupaca wi 747474

so each cell in the row has a different part of information ? or in other words....for each address there will be 6 cells used in each row ?


my fiancee is going to be putting in most of her addresses from her date book......i know she is behind the times, i have been tryin to get her to buy a palm M130....
so anways just curious if using excel to enter the addresses would be easier than doing it through the mail merge wizard


thanks so much in advance

leeland

 

[minendo]

Easiest way in my opinion is to enter them into Excel with the following Columns: Name, Street Address, City, State, Zip.