Adding labels with Vista
Printing labels for your correspondence helps make you appear professional in your day-to-day office life. Microsoft Word, and the rest of the Office suite, remains the easiest way to create labels on a PC, thanks to hundreds of templates, with countless available on the Internet. But, there are other options too, and they are available for free download on the Web and will also help you create labels on Vista.
Instructions
Jarte Templates
1. Download a WordPad label template from Jarte.com. WordPad is a program included with your Vista operating system. Choose the template that fits your label's paper size.
2. Open the template in WordPad and enter the addresses for your labels. The formatting of the labels is already set to the size you chose in Step 1, and you will not be able to alter it.
3. Adjust your font size, font type and color within the labels. Click "Save" or print your labels.
Using Microsoft Word
4. Open Word. Click "File", "New", then scroll down the menu on the left until you click on "Labels". Search through the list of label templates until you find the one that fits your needs. "Double-click" on that template.
5. Type your label information, or import a document with addresses to mail merge, by clicking "Mailings", and then "Select Recipients".
6. Scroll down to "Use Existing List". A window will open and you can search for a Microsoft Excel or Business Contacts Manager file so that you can import the addresses for the labels. Select the document and the appropriate sheet from the document and click "OK" to import the addresses into your template.
Open Office
7. Download the free word processing software from Openoffice.org. Open Office has many of the features of Microsoft Word, and allows you to insert images, customize fonts and print across several labels if you desire. These are features you cannot use in WordPad.
8. Export files from a Vista program, such as Windows Contacts, by clicking "Export", then "Export as a CSV". Save the file to your computer.
9. Import this CSV into "Open Office Write", and then click "Tools". Use the "Mail Merge Wizard" to create labels from your contact files.
