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Printing Labels or Envelopes for Contacts

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Last reviewed on January 7, 2020     8 Comments

Applies to: Outlook (classic), Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010

You can use Microsoft Word to print labels and envelopes in several different ways, including mail merge. A mail merge using Outlook and Word can handle not just built-in fields, but also custom fields added to Contact items.

See Using Mail Merge in Outlook if you need a video tutorial and Add attachments and set email fields during a mail merge to email if you need to merge to email and include an attachment. Mail merge utilities are at Mass Mail Tools for Outlook. Some of the Other Tools can also do general mail merge chores.

Outlook Mail Merge

You can start the merge from any Outlook contacts folder. The steps are similar in all versions of Outlook, however, the menus are different.

  1. Select one or more names in the contacts folder.
  2. Choose Mail Merge from the Actions chunk on the Home ribbon.
    Mail merge command in Outlook 2010/2013
  3. Make your choices on the Mail Merge Contacts dialog box, then click OK.
    Select your options from the Mail Merge Contacts dialog
  4. If you are creating labels, click the Setup button to select the label size.
  5. After Word displays the merge document, add merge fields, other text and formatting as needed. Save the merge document if you think you might use it again.
  6. Click the Merge button.

Using Outlook 2007 and older

  1. Select one or more names in the contacts folder.
  2. Choose Tools | Mail Merge.
  3. Make your choices on the Mail Merge Contacts dialog box, then click OK.
  4. After Word displays the merge document, add merge fields, other text and formatting as needed. Save the merge document if you think you might use it again.
  5. Click the Merge button.

If you want to see custom fields in the Word merge field list, make sure you choose All contact fields under Fields to merge in step 3.

Word Envelopes and Labels

You can use Word's Envelopes and Labels feature to print envelopes.

  1. Open Word.
  2. Switch to the Mailings tab.
  3. Click Envelopes to open the Envelopes and Labels dialog.
    Create envelopes using the address book and Envelopes and Labels dialog
  4. Click the Address book icon.Address book icon If this is the first time using this feature, select Insert Address to browse the Outlook Address Book for an address. Contacts you’ve previous addressed envelopes for will be listed on the MRU.
  5. Click Print to print immediately or Add to document if you are writing a letter and want it saved with the document.

Outlook 2007 and up do not have the New Letter to contact command. You can use a template and macro to replicate the feature.

Word Template (VBA)

Download Helen Feddema's Printing Labels with Outlook Contact Info from Word 97 sample template (code sample #40), which uses VBA code to pull in all the contacts in an Outlook folder called "Labels," putting one address in each cell of a table sized to print on Avery #5160 address labels. Modify to suit your own needs.

 

Tools

Envelopes For Outlook

Envelopes for Outlook is an add-in that places a button on each MS Outlook contact toolbar for simple one click envelope printing. Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2016 are supported. POSTNET barcodes and logo printing supported.


More Information

Start a Letter from an Outlook Contact

Inserting Outlook 2013 Contact Addresses into Envelopes
Print an Envelope for an Outlook Contact

Printing Labels or Envelopes for Contacts was last modified: January 7th, 2020 by Diane Poremsky

Related Posts:

  • Using Mail Merge in Outlook
  • Start a Word letter from an Outlook contact
  • How to Print Outlook Address Books
  • Add Attachments and Set Email Fields During a Mail Merge

About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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Joy Bellinger
June 26, 2014 6:46 am

Can you tell me how i can print out my labels on a label sheet which has been partially used? eg I need to start printing from (say) label 6 and finish at (say) label 16. It is clear in Publisher how you do this but in WORD no one seems to know how to do it!

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Diane Poremsky
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June 26, 2014 8:18 am

I don't know if there is a better way, but when i need to do that, i do it manually - copy then clear the contents of the cells I need to clear and paste it into other cells.

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Jeana Walz
January 31, 2014 4:44 pm

Diane, is there a way to do this using my manager's contacts as a delegate? I'm using MS2010 and it does not appear to give me an option of choosing my manager's contact folder.

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Diane Poremsky
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January 31, 2014 10:45 pm

Unfortunately, you can't use the contact folder as an address book. You can copy the contacts to a new contact folder in your mailbox (use a new contacts folder so they don't get mixed in with your own contacts) - or create a List view that has the fields you need, select all, copy and paste into Notepad or Excel and save with the csv extension. This creates a Tab or comma delimited file you can use as the data source. Use the Select Recipients > Use existing list.

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Thomas Prusinowski
December 1, 2013 2:11 pm

I would like to create a sheet of labels with all different addresses but the system will not allow me to save it. How can I do this? Thanks Tom

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Diane Poremsky
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December 1, 2013 10:09 pm

How are you creating it? A mail merge is usually the easiest way to create labels.

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Bruce Carter
January 22, 2013 9:02 am

First line, what is a contacts folder? elaborate. Do you mean the name and address storred in the dta base?

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Diane Poremsky
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January 22, 2013 1:11 pm

Are you using Outlook? If so, you need to open the Contacts folder in Outlook. Ctrl+3 will display the Contacts module in the navigation pane.

If you are using a database as the address source in a Word mail merge, you'll use Word's mail merge wizard.

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