It’s not too late to send out your Christmas cards. These instructions may help to print your labels using your Outlook contacts. Of course, you can use this all year long for regular mailings.

1. In Word 2007, click on Mailings tab
2. Click on Start Mail Merge and select Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard from the drop down list
3. Select labels from the options in the blue Mail Merge box on the right of your screen.
4. Click Next: Starting document at bottom of blue box.
5. Under Starting document: Change document layout select Labels option.
6. Enter the number of your labels (found on the packet or on the sheet of labels), click ok. You will get a dialog box that says Word must delete current contents of Document 1. Click ok.
7. Click Next: at bottom of blue box
8. Under Select recipients: click Select from Outlook contacts and click on Choose contacts folder.
9. Select Contacts and click ok
10. A dialog box called Mail Merge Recipients will pop up. Go down the list and uncheck the ones for whom you don’t want to print labels. Click ok when done.
11. Click Next: Arrange your labels at bottom of blue screen
12. Arrange your labels: Click on Address Block and then click on Update all labels.
13. Click on Next: Preview your labels.
14. Click Next: complete the merge.
15. At this point you can print your labels or edit individual labels.