![]() Okay, now we get to the weird part that is going to seem unrelated to merging these addresses into labels. Of course, if you’re outside the US, your columns will be different. It’s always a good idea to separate out your fields like I have done: first name, last name, street, city, state, zip. Make sure that you have column names at the top as those can become the field names in the database. I’m assuming you have a spreadsheet with addresses, like this one: Part 1: Register Your Database with the Address Book Data Source Wizardīefore creating any labels, the first thing you need to do is create your database. And, in fact, the first step will seem unrelated to merging labels, but it is necessary. LibreOffice is fully capable of doing this, but it’s not what I would call “easy” or straightforward. The idea behind a label merge, just like a form letter merge, is that you have a bunch of address information in a spreadsheet or database and, rather than having to enter all of that separately into a document to print labels, you’ll just have the software create the labels from the data you already have. So, here is my tutorial on how to merge labels in LibreOffice. Whenever that happens, I know that means I need to create a tutorial on here so I can remind myself how to do it if I ever need to do it again. In the process, I realized that I totally forgot how to do it after the first time. ![]() The first time, I actually did a form letter and a label merge the second time I just had to do an address label merge. Envelopes have flaps, which may catch in the feed mechanism.I’ve been using LibreOffice for over a decade and have only had to do an address label merge twice in that time – both of which have been in the last month.If you feed an envelope which is smaller than that, you risk that it stops somewhere in the paper path. Note that envelope formats are not handled reliably by all printers. If you don’t have a separate envelope feeder, you should receive instruction from printer front panel (or onscreen messages) about feeding envelope manually. When the printer is instructed to print the envelope, it needs to change paper type. For a single instance, the above procedure is simpler and more intuitive. If you do this frequently/in large volumes (mailmerge procedure), you may be better off to create a template where the envelope and letter pages are in the same document, and content of one “address container” is automatically copied to another. Writer does not have any automatic features to identify your address and select correct envelope size, so this is a manual procedure. Paste the address you copied in the first step.Insert a frame, drag it in place and select it for insertion (press Enter).Move the insertion point to where the address should be, by.In the Format field, select the envelope size you are going to use. ![]()
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