Create Mailing Labels In Word 97

You should set up your data source as a table in a Word document with
nothing before or after the table. The first row of the table must contain
valid mergefield names (i.e. no spaces).

Then there is no conversion required so you will not have to find the screen
that you are talking about.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"K" wrote in message
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The data source Im trying to use is a MS Word document, .doc, the same
format
as I used before when the window in question came up before. Thanks, K.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

It would most likely come up if you were using a .txt file as the data
source. In what format do you have the new datasource?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"K" wrote in message
...
During my stumble thru Mail Mergre the other day, at some point in the
process a screen came up during datasource conversion that allowed me
to
define what determined the end of a line and what determined the end of
a
record. Now I am trying to bulid a list of labels with a different but
similar datasource and I cant seem to find that screen again.
Consequently
I
cant get my datasource converted like before. I think Im following the
same
process as before but of course thats always questionable. Any ideas
about
how to get to that conversion screen will be greatly apprciated.
Thanks,
K.

"K" wrote:

I'm trying for the first time to create mailing labels in our Word 97.
Each
label will be different. Following the Help instructions has proved to
be
beyond my capabilities. Any chance there instructions for this task
for
the
computerly challenged? Thanks, K.

Everything I read suggested that the datasource should be reformatted into a
table of some sort - Word, Excel, etc, so I suspect there is a reasonable
reason for that insistance. However, simply changing my datasource from
verticle to horizontal was fast, efficient and I didn't have to spend the
hours learning a whole new process that I'm only going to use on occasion. If
I could find that window again and try one of my horizontal lists in it - and
it works, then one datasource could be used for every facet of each marketing
project. As it stands now, a completly unique datasource must be developed
strictly for mail merge. Everytime a human hand massages data, the chance for
error increases. If the same datasource can be use for every application, the
chance for error is decreased and the efficiency level increases. However, in
light of all this, mail merge is now a part of our operations and we wouldn't
be this far along without your help. For that I am grateful. Thanks, K.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

You should set up your data source as a table in a Word document with
nothing before or after the table. The first row of the table must contain
valid mergefield names (i.e. no spaces).

Then there is no conversion required so you will not have to find the screen
that you are talking about.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"K" wrote in message
...
The data source Im trying to use is a MS Word document, .doc, the same
format
as I used before when the window in question came up before. Thanks, K.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

It would most likely come up if you were using a .txt file as the data
source. In what format do you have the new datasource?

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"K" wrote in message
...
During my stumble thru Mail Mergre the other day, at some point in the
process a screen came up during datasource conversion that allowed me
to
define what determined the end of a line and what determined the end of
a
record. Now I am trying to bulid a list of labels with a different but
similar datasource and I cant seem to find that screen again.
Consequently
I
cant get my datasource converted like before. I think Im following the
same
process as before but of course thats always questionable. Any ideas
about
how to get to that conversion screen will be greatly apprciated.
Thanks,
K.

"K" wrote:

I'm trying for the first time to create mailing labels in our Word 97.
Each
label will be different. Following the Help instructions has proved to
be
beyond my capabilities. Any chance there instructions for this task
for
the
computerly challenged? Thanks, K.