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How Can Laser Labels Help?

Addressing envelopes can become a very tedious, hand cramping job, especially if you list contains more than a hundred people. Small businesses owner, large businesses owner, bride to be, party-animal, mother to be, can all enjoy the benefits of having the addresses printed out as opposed to hand written.   It can save you hours and hours of sitting at the desk writing, and re-writing addresses with pen and ink, throwing away envelopes after envelopes because of mistakes.  With the use of  laser labels, you can print out the addresses, peel them and stick them on envelopes.  This can decrease the time it takes as well as prevent needless waste of envelopes because you can now check the correctness of the addresses before printing.  There are two questions to address in order to understand how easy it is to do this.

1) How does one get the address digitally?

The classic way of doing this is to go through your address book or list and type them in. Be sure to use a spreadsheet program in a certain format described below to avoid double work.  Another way to obtain addresses these days is to use the communication technology available.  You can obtain the addresses of people digitally either through email or chat or social network sights.   There is no shame in asking people to give you their updated address online.  This may even be that very rare time that a mass email is acceptable. Once the email arrives, enter their addresses into the spreadsheet.

2) How do I get the addresses on the label?

Now that you have all the addresses collected in your spreadsheet (Microsoft Word), you can use the “mail merging” which is available in Microsoft Word to create your address labels.  In short, mail merging is a very handy script that comes with Microsoft Word that automates bringing in addresses from an Excel file and formts them into label templates that fit into the size of your selected laser labels.  Details of mail merge can be found here.

Honestly, it may feel like it takes more time as you start this process, however, once this process is down, you will see the bennifits and ease.

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Filed under: Blank Label Uses on July 28th, 2009