Expert: Richard Rost - 9/11/2009

Question
I have a large microsoft works spreadsheet set up with the addresses of all my personal contacts.  I am trying to create a sheet of mailing labels through word.  I can't get it to work.  THis is what I doing right now:

1- go to Tools and select mail merge wizard.  Select document type labels.  Select the proper label size.  Click next.  

2- here is where i don't know where to go.  i have tried everything and I keep getting blank labels, or when it tries to open my spreadsheet  it is in weird computer symbols.  i don't know if i need to save my works spreadsheet as a different file type or what.

Please help me- I have 250 address labels I need to print and i really don't want to type them all by hand!

Thank you so much in advance!

Answer
Sorry, but I have never used Works Suite 2004.

It sounds like Word can't read your data file. I would try saving the data file as something else (I'm sure there's an option in Works to do that, but like I said, I've never used Works).

Here's a tutorial on Mail Merge with Word:

http://www.599cd.com/tips/word/mail-merge/?key=AllExperts

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