Printing Labels...

LittleKagsin · Apr 24, 2017

Is anyone here a whiz with Microsoft word??

My friend is having a label printing struggle - even after following all the instructions to fix this problem, it isn't fixed. When he prints on the label paper it just says 'next record' and...I dunno. HELP.

Any ideas?

figmentPez · Apr 24, 2017

Is he trying to do a "Mail Merge" with an Excel spreadheet, and it's failing? Or is the system trying to do that when he doesn't want it to?

LittleKagsin · Apr 24, 2017

figmentPez said:
Is he trying to do a "Mail Merge" with an Excel spreadheet, and it's failing? Or is the system trying to do that when he doesn't want it to?

I honestly have no idea.

I'm sorry.

PatrThom · Apr 24, 2017

It really looks like a failed mail merge, but I'm not sure how the document is formatted. I wonder if @Dave would be the best to answer this.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Apr 25, 2017

I'm the goddamned IT guy and I can never get those labels to work right. I gave up trying to use any kind of spreadsheet/database merge and always end up just typing out all the labels into the template the long way.

Bubble181 · Apr 25, 2017

GasBandit said:
I'm the goddamned IT guy and I can never get those labels to work right. I gave up trying to use any kind of spreadsheet/database merge and always end up just typing out all the labels into the template the long way.

... You don't send out Christmas cards to 10.000 clients, do you?

GasBandit · Apr 25, 2017

Bubble181 said:
... You don't send out Christmas cards to 10.000 clients, do you?

No. I think the most of anything we've ever sent out was, like, 200. And ended up doing those without a database, too.

Bubble181 · Apr 25, 2017

You'd learn quickly

strawman · Apr 25, 2017

If you've filled these out using mail merge then you can't use the normal print button from the file menu. You have to use the print documents button in the mail merge menu.

If you've filled these out by hand, I'm afraid you'll have to start over with the label template and do not use any of the mail merge functions. But in this case I'd break out excell and use that instead, everything is in a nice grid, just adjust he cell height and width to match your template when printed (print the grid on regular paper, then adjust and print a few times until it lines up pretty well).

It's not easy, wish it were. Might almost be worth buying a dymo USB label printer and roll of address labels.

fade · Apr 25, 2017

If you do buy a dedicated label printer, dad law dictates that you must print a label that says "label maker" and affix it to the label maker itself.

Bubble181 · Apr 25, 2017

fade said:
If you do buy a dedicated label printer, dad law dictates that you must print a label that says "label maker" and affix it to the label maker itself.

The smaller label that says "label maker label" is still optional, but I've heard they plan to introduce an amendment making it obligated for multi-size label makers in 2019.