Cannot print a mail merge document.

[Learner123]

I have created a mail merge document in MS Word from an Excel worksheet
The mail merge process worked perfectly, and I had several pages o
labels merged into my Word document. But every time I tried to prin
the labels to our Brother MFC-8480 laser printer, the printer froze
displayed a "no paper" error message, and would not print anything els
after that. I had to turn the printer off and on again every time t
clear out the error message.

I've used this printer for over a year to print on 8.5 X 11 paper ever
day. Right now I would like to print this labels document on the sam
plain paper, so the boss can check it before printing on labels. I'v
selected the Avery 5160 address labels in Word.

How can I convince MS Word to print this document??

 

[Walter Briscoe]

In message <[email protected]> of Thu, 4 Oct 2012
17:58:48 in microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields, Learner123

I have created a mail merge document in MS Word from an Excel worksheet.
The mail merge process worked perfectly, and I had several pages of
labels merged into my Word document. But every time I tried to print
the labels to our Brother MFC-8480 laser printer, the printer froze,
displayed a "no paper" error message, and would not print anything else
after that. I had to turn the printer off and on again every time to
clear out the error message.

I've used this printer for over a year to print on 8.5 X 11 paper every
day. Right now I would like to print this labels document on the same
plain paper, so the boss can check it before printing on labels. I've
selected the Avery 5160 address labels in Word.

How can I convince MS Word to print this document???

Will it print to another printer?
I would try printing it via a .pdf file.
I use PDFCreator. <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/>
I assume you don't REALLY care why the printer dislikes your file.