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Megan
Super May 2019

Mail Merge & Printing on Envelopes

Megan, on November 9, 2018 at 3:36 PM Posted in Do It Yourself 2 5

I've spent the last 2 hours messing with importing my guest list and getting the right format, font, etc. into Microsoft Word, I think I'm a pro now! Now let's hope I can get them to print directly onto the envelopes correctly!


PS--if you are planning to do this: my biggest tip to you is to create two lists in excel! One list for married couples and singles. Another list for couples with different last names.

The reason being is Microsoft Word does not have an address block format that allows a couple with different last names to be listed as John Smith & Jane Doe without it changing the singles names to "The Smith Family" ---it took my FOREVER to figure this out!!!

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Latest activity by Victoria, on November 10, 2018 at 8:30 PM
  • Danielle
    Expert March 2019
    Danielle ·
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    Just a suggestion, since I live in Excel for work, but you can create a column in Excel and call it Envelope Name or something like that, and just make sure for every record you have it written out exactly how you want it to appear. Then when you set up the merge, just select that field instead of messing with First Name/Last Name.

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  • Megan
    Super May 2019
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    Oh so like in the same column I would put "John Doe" or "John Doe & Jane Smith" or "John & Jane Smith" instead of having seperate columns for first name, last name, spouse first name, spouse last name??

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  • Danielle
    Expert March 2019
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    Yep, then just use that one. My guest list spreadsheet has all the variations in columns. First Name/Last Name just so we can find people, a more casual "John and Jane Smith" that we used for STDs, and then "Mr and Mrs John Smith" that we'll use for invites.

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  • Chandra
    Master May 2019
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    I tried and failed with mail merge. Lol but I made custom sheet size as close to my envelope size as it woul let me and just had a bunch of sheets with the envelope layouts lol
    Much faster than putzing around with MM when I'm terrible at excel!

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  • Victoria
    Beginner April 2019
    Victoria ·
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    I wish I was tech savvy enough with Word to do that lol.

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