Step 2: Import the list to Word. Now, we need to import the customer list into Word document. Click Mailings Start Mail Merge Envelopes. In the Envelope Options dialog, click OK. Then the document is changed to an envelope with the default return address showing at the top left corner. See screenshot: 3. To locate the From Left and From Top settings for Microsoft Word 2002 and for Microsoft Office Word 2003, point to Letters and Mailings on the Tools menu, click Envelopes and Labels, click the Envelopes tab, and then click Options. Microsoft Word users have long been aware of the benefit of typing, rather than hand-writing, letters and business forms for their readability. Transfer that clarity to the housing for those papers by printing the envelopes right along with the other materials using Microsoft Word.

1. Microsoft Word Envelope Mail Merge
2. Microsoft Word Envelope Label Template
3. Microsoft Word Envelope Printing
4. Microsoft Word Envelope

How to create and print envelopes from the mailing list in Word?

If you have a client or customerlist, and you need to send an update leaflet to all the clients in the list, in many cases you have to write each customer's name and address on the envelopes for the sending. But if there are numerous customer information existing in the list, the writing work will be a huge project. Now, I introduce a trick for you to create and print envelopes from the list in Word.

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Create and print envelopes from mailing list in Word

Step 1: Set envelopes style

Microsoft Word Envelope Mail Merge

Firstly, you need to set the envelopes style.

1. Open a Word document and click Mailings > Envelopes. See screenshot:

2. Type the delivery address In the Delivery address box, and in the Return address box, type your return address. Then click Options button. See screenshot:

Microsoft Word Envelope Label Template

3. In the Envelope Options dialog, click Envelope Options tab to specify the envelope size, delivery address and return address. See screenshot:

4. Then click Printing Options tab to choose a way that the envelope will be loaded into the printer. See screenshot:

5. Click OK. And Click Print to print the envelope.

6. Then Word prompts a dialog for you to save the return address, click Yes. See screenshot:

7. Check if the envelope printed correctly.

If the envelope didn’t print correctly, try adjusting the Feed method options in step 4.

Step 2: Import the list to Word

Now, we need to import the customer list into Word document.

1. Click Mailings > Start Mail Merge > Envelopes.

2. In the Envelope Options dialog, click OK. Then the document is changed to an envelope with the default return address showing at the top left corner. See screenshot:

3. Click Mailings > Select Recipients > Use an Existing List. See screenshot:

4. A Select Data Source dialog is displayed for you to select the file which include the list you want to import, then click Open. Here I select an Excel workbook, after clicking Open button, a Select Table dialog pops up for selecting the sheet which the list existing in. See screenshot:

5. Click OK to close the dialog, and click Mailings > Edit Recipients List, you can see the customers list has been added. See screenshot:

6. Check the person you want to send the letter to in the pop-up dialog. Then click OK.

Step 3: Add information to the envelope

In this part, you need to specify the information appeared on the envelope.

1. Put the cursor on the middle of the envelope (which is a text box displayed), and then specify a position you want to insert the address. See screenshot:

2. Click Mailings > Address Block to show the Insert Address Block dialog. See screenshot:

3. In this dialog, select the recipient name format you want to insert under Insert recipient’s name in this format section, and you can preview the result in the Preview section after select a name format. See screenshot:

Tip: If you want to know whether the fields in your recipient list match to the required fields or not, please click Match Fields. In the Match Fields dialog, you can decide which fields can appear on the envelope. If you do not want the field showed, click (not matched) in the drop-down list. See screenshot:

4. Click OK, you can see the address block has been inserted into the envelope. See screenshot:

Step 4: Print the envelopes

Start to print the envelopes.

1. Click Mailings > Preview Results, and then click and buttons to preview and make sure the names and addresses on the envelopes are correct. See screenshots:

2. Click Finish & Merge > Print Documents. See screenshot:

3. Then the Merge to Printer dialog is displayed, please select a print records to meet your need and finally click OK. See screenshot:

The envelopes are printed.

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Word makes it easy to create envelopes for the letters you write.

• In Word 2000 and earlier, open the Tools | Envelopes and Labels dialog.

• In Word 2002 and 2003, this dialog is accessed via Tools | Letters and Mailings | Envelopes and Labels.

• In Word 2007 and above, use Mailings | Create | Envelopes.

When you open this dialog and (if necessary) select the Envelopes tab, the Inside Address in your letter may already be inserted, especially if you have selected it before opening the dialog. If not, you can use Ctrl+C to copy the address and Ctrl+V to paste it into the dialog. Or, if you have access to an Address Book that works with Word, you can click on the Insert Address button to insert the address. Word’s Help topic “Create and print a single envelope” explains how to do all this, and if you use the “Ask a question” box to search for “envelope,” you will find many other helpful Help topics.

When you have pasted in the delivery address, added a return address, and selected the other required options (as described in the Help topic), you can print the envelope immediately, or you can click the Add to Document button to attach the envelope to your letter (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Envelopes and Labels dialog showing Add to Document button.

This is where a lot of users get into trouble. They may want to print the envelope with the document and then remove the envelope, saving only the letter, or they may have created an envelope attached to a blank document, in order to print multiple envelopes (SASEs, for example), and want to remove the blank page and save just the envelope. Here’s how to do both:

Remove the envelope

This is the easier of the two problems. Word inserts the envelope as a separate section (Section 1, page 0). If you view the document in Normal view (Draft view in Word 2007 and above), you will be able to see the section break clearly (Figure 2).

Figure 2. Document viewed in Normal/Draft view showing section break.

Select everything from the beginning of the document up to and including the section break and press Delete. You’ll be back where you started, with just the letter.

Remove the “letter”

This one is a little more complicated but not at all difficult. If you know anything aboutworking with sections, you know that a section break stores information about the paper size and orientation, margins, etc. These same settings are stored in the final paragraph mark of the last section of a document. Your Letter + Envelope document contains two sections. Section 1 is an envelope (probably in Landscape orientation, with an envelope paper size), and Section 2 is a “letter” (a Letter or A4-sized page). If you try to delete the “letter” portion of your document (which may be just a blank page), including the section break, you’ll end up turning your envelope into a “letter.” You don’t want that!

The trick is to turn the “letter” into an envelope. When you delete the section break, Section 1 is going to take on the formatting of Section 2, so what you want to do is make Section 2 the same as Section 1. Here’s how:

Microsoft Word Envelope Printing

1. With the insertion point in Section 1 (the envelope), open the Page Setup dialog (Figure 3), as follows:

• Word 2003 and earlier: On the File menu, select Page Setup.

• Word 2007 and above: On the Page Layout or Layout tab of the Ribbon, click the dialog launcher in the bottom right corner of the Page Setup group.

• Any version: Double-click at the top of the horizontal ruler.

Important Note: You must place the insertion point in the return address in order to access Page Setup. The delivery address is in a frame, so you cannot access Page Setup if the insertion point is in the delivery address.

Microsoft Word Envelope

Figure 3. The Page Setup dialog

2. Without making any changes, click OK. This stores the settings in that dialog.

3. Move the insertion point to Section 2 (the “letter”).

4. Click F4 (Repeat). This “repeats” the action of choosing the Page Setup settings; your “letter” is now an envelope.

5. Switch to Normal view and select everything from the end of the document up to and including the section break; press Delete. You now have only one section, the envelope.

6. Save your document.

Another way to create envelopes

Often you need to print multiple copies of an envelope or save it for reuse. Attaching an envelope to a blank document is not the only way to create such an envelope. You can also do this by starting from scratch.

1. Create a new Blank Document.

2. On the Paper (or Paper Size) tab of Page Setup, select your envelope size (as in Figure 3).

3. On the Margins (or Paper Size) tab of Page Setup, select Landscape orientation.

4. Change the margins to dimensions that will be suitable for an envelope; usually 0.38″ all around will be adequate, but, for what it’s worth, the default envelope margins in Word (when you add an envelope to a document) are 0.25' Top, 0.4' Left, and 0.5' Right and Bottom. You will need to be sure the margins are within your printer’s printable area, and note that the Envelope Address frame is formatted as Bottom Relative to Margin, so the bottom margin will determine the placement of this frame.

5. Click OK to exit the dialog.

6. In the document, apply the Envelope Return style to the default empty paragraph (see Important Note below). Type your return address, pressing Shift+Enter at the end of each line. Press Enter at the end of the return address.

   Figure 4. Envelope showing Envelope Return and Envelope Address styles

7. In the new paragraph, apply the Envelope Address style (see Important Note below). This style includes a frame, which may not be positioned appropriately if your envelope is a nonstandard size. You can double-click on the hashed border of the frame to open the Format Frame dialog and change its size and/or position.

8. Type an address in the frame, pressing Shift+Enter at the end of each line.

9. Save your envelope.

Important Note: To access the Envelope Return and Envelope Address styles in Word 2003 and earlier, press Shift while clicking the arrow beside the Style dropdown to force Word to display all styles. In Word 2007 and above, if you have added the Style dropdown to the Quick Access Toolbar, you can use the same technique. If you are using the Styles task pane (Home | Styles | Styles or Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S), click on Options… and choose 'All styles' under 'Select styles to show.' After you have created your envelope template, you can change this setting back to 'Recommended' or whatever setting you were using before.

The above is just a bare outline of the steps required to create a custom envelope. For more on this subject see the articles “Modifying the appearance of your envelopes” and “Changing Word envelope layouts.” You can learn more about how to include graphics in your return address in “Using alternative return addresses on envelopes from the Envelope/Label Wizard.” Graham Mayor also has sample envelope templates on hisdownload page.

This article copyright © 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018 by Suzanne S. Barnhill.