{"id":1242,"date":"2009-01-16T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2009\/01\/16\/printing-envelopes-using-excel-and-word\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:39:10","slug":"printing-envelopes-using-excel-and-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/printing-envelopes-using-excel-and-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing Envelopes Using Excel and Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s author, Eric Patterson, a Program Manager on the Excel team, describes how to use Excel Tables as a source for a mail merge \u2013 a great productivity tool for sending out holiday greeting cards! \ud83d\ude42 <\/i>Eric wrote this before the holidays but unfortunately I was out of the office and didn\u2019t get to post this until now. Very useful nonetheless.<\/i><\/p>\n

At this time of the year I find myself preparing to send out a large number of greeting cards to friends and family. I have most of my addresses in Excel with columns for FirstName, LastName, Address, City, State and Postal Code.<\/p>\n

If you’re like me, you don’t keep your address list up to date and you don’t print envelopes often. I have a number of addresses that I know are correct but there are others that I need to confirm before printing them out. Given the number that I need to do for the holidays, I do want to get started though.<\/p>\n

Creating a Table<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The first step is to create a Table from the list of addresses.<\/p>\n