OFFICE XP / WORD - Envelope saving

[Jasonchatham]

Hi

I have just placed a spanking new Desktop PC on a users desk to replace a W98 machine on which his much beloved WORKS 95 sat and worked until a hard drive failure meant I could prize it away from him.

He now has Windows XP and Office XP !

On Works he could in a document type up an envelope, Print it and SAVE it to a file for future use.

How does he do this in Word 2002 - the save option doesn't appear after he prints and the envelope is lost.

Many thanks in anticipation ...

Jason

 

[luceze]

Hello Jason,

It is actually very simple. Go to tools/Letters and Mailings/Envelopes and Labels.

Select the envelopes tab.

Create your envelope.

Click add to document.

Save the document.


HTH,
Eric

 

[Dreamboat]

Jason: Here's how I do it, and I think it's MUCH easier than all those buttons...

http://www.theofficeexperts.com/word.htm#Envelopes&LabelsTricks

Follow the instructions to make an envelope template and then give the guy a button on his toolbar to USE the template. You can record that macro by File-New and choose the envelope template.

He can save any envelope (he makes from the template) as a doc file.

Anne Troy
VBA Coders, please help:

http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb

 

[Jasonchatham]

Eric / Anne

In works it saved the envelope automatically to a seperate file, I cant remember if the user had typed the address in his document first then gone into the envelope printing or not.

Yes the Envelope template works OK for me, He's an old guy and set in his ways ! I was just trying to get a full version of expensive Word processing software to work like his old cheap comes free with every PC software !

You can just hear the ear ache I am getting can't you.

Jason

 

[Jasonchatham]

Ok I have looked into this a bit more.

In Word 2000 in TOOLS > Envelopes and labels ...

when I type the adress the only options are to print it and add to current document.

I think there must have been a change between works and word on this function ? maybe adding to the curent document is cleverer than saving to a file ?

Any Ideas how to explain this to the user ?

 

[luceze]

Ann writes the books...

 

[Jasonchatham]

Which Books ?

 

[Dreamboat]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0972425845/ref=nosim/fc-20/104-1596238-1449545

Anne Troy
VBA Coders, please help:

http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb

 

[Jasonchatham]

Yep walked right in to that advert. LOL

 

[Dreamboat]

LOL

Anne Troy
VBA Coders, please help:

http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb