


While all of these features (and more) use some type of numbering in them, they are not all well suited to creating labels.

For instance, you can use different fields for numbering, or use numbered lists, the captioning feature, or you can use mail merging. Word has many ways you can implement some type of numbering in your documents. (You can discover how to create labels using mail merge in other issues of WordTips.If you work in a business where you need to sequentially number items, you might be wondering if there is a way you can use Word to create the labels for you. Storing the addresses in this manner makes them easier to sort and organize, and using mail merge is pretty easy, once you know how to do it. The best solution is to make sure that your addresses are stored in some type of data source (such as Excel or Outlook) and then use Word's mail merge capabilities to create labels whenever you need them. If there are multiple labels on each row, then this solution may not be satisfactory because it means you end up with some blank, wasted labels in your printout. You can, however, add a row in your table (labels are organized in a table) and then use the new row to insert the new address. It is unclear how you created the address labels to begin with and that information, to a large degree, determines how big of a job it is to "do them all over again." Unfortunately, there is no way to insert a label into the midst of a group of existing labels and have the labels readjust themselves to accommodate the information you are inserting. Terri wants to make sure that the addresses on the finished labels are in order, by address, so she is wondering how she can insert the missing address labels without having to do them all over again. After completing them she realized that she forgot some addresses. Terri has made several pages of address labels.
