Converting Labels to Access

[ericm]

Hi,

I'm challenged with this problem : I have inherited pages of address in
label format. The Word document these labels are in are not in any sort of
order and they are not part of a mail-merge document; they are simply
addresses typed into Word. The user wants to do three things with them : 1)
Be able to add, remove, change labels for printing, 2) select which labels
should be printed, and 3) sort the labels. Basically the user wants the
information in what I'd guess to be a database for manipulation purposes, and
then mail-merge the selected addresses with Word to get address labels.

If I were starting off cold, I'd simply construct an Access database for
addresses. That would allow for editing, sorting and selection. Then I'd
somehow figure out to merge only the selected addresses into Word label
format: this I do not know how to do. This is my first question.

And I'm presented with a situation I'd rather not face: do the addresses
that are already typed into Word labels need to be re-typed into a database,
or is there a way to auto-fill the database with the existing information?
This is my second question.

Thank you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/ConvertAdrsToDatafile.htm