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Author: Paula

Date: 14 Dec 2005 8:23 pm

Is anyone fairly familiar with this program? I am trying to figure out how to print a list of addresses on envelopes (1 envelope each) without having to do mail merge because the list of addresses continously changes. I've tried doing page breaks, etc, but it only prints one envelope.

Anyone have any idea how to do this on there without using mail merge?

Author: Walt

Date: 15 Dec 2005 6:26 am

Paula,

I'm sorry that I can't help, although I did want you to know I care.

See, I don't have the problem that you have, because I only have one friend anyway, and I can just leave the envelope on the kitchen counter... :roll:

Walt

Author: Paula

Date: 15 Dec 2005 6:35 am

Walt wrote:
Paula,

I'm sorry that I can't help, although I did want you to know I care.

See, I don't have the problem that you have, because I only have one friend anyway, and I can just leave the envelope on the kitchen counter... :roll:

Walt



All right Walt....what'd you spike your coffee with this morning?!

And what are we, chopped liver?!

Author: MissSnowshoveler

Date: 15 Dec 2005 6:59 am

I use Office - but very rarely, so I can't be any help either. I'm still trying to figure out their publisher program. After I get the hang of something I don't need it anymore for a while and forget how to use it when I need it again.
Walt - are you insinuating that we are not your friends?
Sherri :cry:

Author: Paula

Date: 15 Dec 2005 8:19 am

MissSnowshoveler wrote:
Walt - are you insinuating that we are not your friends?
Sherri :cry:

Sherri...I do believe that is EXACTLY what he is insinuating... :cry:

What do you think...should we give him THE treatment? :twisted:

Author: MissSnowshoveler

Date: 15 Dec 2005 8:30 am

Paula wrote:
Sherri...I do believe that is EXACTLY what he is insinuating... :cry:

What do you think...should we give him THE treatment? :twisted:

Yes THE treatment should bring him around. But then again, didn't he get the treatment in CD form and look at it at work not so long ago or is that my imagination playing nasty tricks on me? :P
Sherri

Author: Paula

Date: 15 Dec 2005 8:53 am

MissSnowshoveler wrote:
Yes THE treatment should bring him around. But then again, didn't he get the treatment in CD form and look at it at work not so long ago or is that my imagination playing nasty tricks on me? :P
Sherri

That was mere child's play Sherri...THE treatment is a whole other ball game (no pun intended :oops:).

Don't worry Walt....Windy's left eye twitch has almost subsided from when he received THE treatment... :shock:

Author: MissSnowshoveler

Date: 15 Dec 2005 12:05 pm

hehehehehe hahahahaha
Sherri

Author: bbwb

Date: 15 Dec 2005 4:24 pm

Hi Paula:
I do the same thing with my xmas cards, however I use Microsoft Publisher. Do the mail merge and then if you need to edit it, you can change it and then remerge the addresses.
bbwb :D

Author: Paula

Date: 15 Dec 2005 5:05 pm

bbwb wrote:
Hi Paula:
I do the same thing with my xmas cards, however I use Microsoft Publisher. Do the mail merge and then if you need to edit it, you can change it and then remerge the addresses.
bbwb :D

This is actually for work. I have a doc I do a list of final letters for and just block and copy the addresses from the letters (don't always fall into the same place) and wind up with a list to print from.

Author: Termy

Date: 15 Dec 2005 5:08 pm

I wish I could help you Paula but I don't use office for no more than a word processor and there are still things about that program that I don't even know I can do lol

Author: ramit

Date: 15 Dec 2005 10:25 pm

Paula, sorry, but your stuck with doing a mail merge.
Since it can't be done other ways, they created mail merge.

Ah, just thought of one thing.
are you opposed to using labels?

If you use an avery label, you can go do their site, download the MSWord template for that label for free.
You can just cut and past each address into that template and print away.

Make sure you safe as you go along and make it your mailing list.

All they do on the template is make a table with the right spacing for the labels.

It's very simple and since your already cutting and pasting, you'll still have to do it this year, but next you wont' have too. And it's really easy to edit... just as you would anyway.

Plus you can add some xmas pix to the label to make a more custom look.

Author: Walt

Date: 16 Dec 2005 5:00 am

Paula wrote:
Walt wrote:
Paula,

I'm sorry that I can't help, although I did want you to know I care.

See, I don't have the problem that you have, because I only have one friend anyway, and I can just leave the envelope on the kitchen counter... :roll:

Walt



All right Walt....what'd you spike your coffee with this morning?!

And what are we, chopped liver?!

Paula and Sherri,

Thank you so much for reminding me that despite your desire to boil and grill me on a spit, I do have friends here. I absolutely do not think you are chopped liver, as that would be so "passenger class" on the steamship of life... I rather think of you as Pate. First class and on the upper deck - all the way!

I was actually so excited about knowing I DO have friends, that I wrote you each letters on my computer. However, in my new found excitement, I made an error because I wanted you to get the letter quickly and I licked a whole sheet of stamps and stuck them to my screen before I scribed your addresses into the monitor.

I then remembered that I don't know your addresses... only the famous "Termy the Spud Stud" does. In my desire to again clear my screen so I could find out where you both live, I used a very sharp razor blade and penetrated the Flat Panel Display glass, after which your letters drained onto my desk as though my friendship had dissolved into a puddle of tears before me. The shattered glass reminded me of my crystal palace internet life which also lay shattered at my feet. Would Sherri and Paula know I wrote them? ... the questions spun like a whirlpool in my mind.

With a pile of paper towels now grasped in my hand, I mopped those tears, with thoughts of my friendship and letters now vanishing like smoke rings in the dark. "How could this be" I thought.

You both ARE my friends, tried and true, symbolized by the blood flowing from my hand from where I cut myself when the monitor shattered. As that doctor sewed stitches in my hand like our mended friendship, the only think I could think was "It's a darn good thing our friendship doesn't require another CAT Scan!"

Love ya both, and Thanks!

Walt

Author: Paula

Date: 16 Dec 2005 6:23 am

Walt wrote:
Paula and Sherri,

Thank you so much for reminding me that despite your desire to boil and grill me on a spit, I do have friends here. I absolutely do not think you are chopped liver, as that would be so "passenger class" on the steamship of life... I rather think of you as Pate. First class and on the upper deck - all the way!

I was actually so excited about knowing I DO have friends, that I wrote you each letters on my computer. However, in my new found excitement, I made an error because I wanted you to get the letter quickly and I licked a whole sheet of stamps and stuck them to my screen before I scribed your addresses into the monitor.

I then remembered that I don't know your addresses... only the famous "Termy the Spud Stud" does. In my desire to again clear my screen so I could find out where you both live, I used a very sharp razor blade and penetrated the Flat Panel Display glass, after which your letters drained onto my desk as though my friendship had dissolved into a puddle of tears before me. The shattered glass reminded me of my crystal palace internet life which also lay shattered at my feet. Would Sherri and Paula know I wrote them? ... the questions spun like a whirlpool in my mind.

With a pile of paper towels now grasped in my hand, I mopped those tears, with thoughts of my friendship and letters now vanishing like smoke rings in the dark. "How could this be" I thought.

You both ARE my friends, tried and true, symbolized by the blood flowing from my hand from where I cut myself when the monitor shattered. As that doctor sewed stitches in my hand like our mended friendship, the only think I could think was "It's a darn good thing our friendship doesn't require another CAT Scan!"

Love ya both, and Thanks!

Walt



You drinking expresso Walt? I think you're only supposed to have a cup or two...not an entire pot!

About your bloody hand....I really think you should have a CAT scan of that done....just to be sure that you didn't leave monitor parts in there....and I read in my medical textbooks that the optimal position to have a CAT scan of the hand done is at juuuuust slightly below hip level...and I quote "The hand should be placed at just slightly below hip level and a full scan of the area should be performed to make sure that the entire hand is scanned."

Sherri and I would feel much better if you'd post that scan on here so that we know that your hand is ok....visual proof is so reassuring...

Your friend, Pate

Author: MissSnowshoveler

Date: 16 Dec 2005 6:40 am

When in need of a friendly kick in the prosterior, we are there.
When in need of a little reassurance, we are there.
When in need of a gut wrenching, tears flowing laugh, we are there.
When you are in need of a creative outlet, here we are...

So sorry that in your excitement you ruined a perfectly good computer monitor (not to mention a sheet of stamps), cut your hand trying to clean it up and had to go to the hospital for stitches. I'm sure that you will be able to pull yourself out of the vortex that you happened to find yourself in while typing your little escapade.
A CAT scan is in order...what if you damaged something deep within your hand or there is a piece of monitor still in there. I'd hate to think that you could be the begining of the Borg on Earth. You never know what strange stuff they put in these computers for just that purpose. So please from your truest friends have that scan and post it here as quick as you can. Your resistance is futile...
Your friend
Pate II