I have an excel worksheet with names and addresses.

I have a word document with a text box  with border
and to and from addresses and a little notation text in the corner.

Currently I am cutting and pasting between the apps.
I would like to automate the creation and printing of this mailing label
from within excel.

I would like some advice. I do not know word very well. Would templates be
the way?
search and replace text?

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
Tom

From the sound of it you want Word mailmerge. With this you can create your labels in Word and merge them with an datasource (your addresses) in another application (like Excel)

See:
"How to create a Mailmerge"
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MailMerge/CreateAMailMerge.htm

Hope this helps,
regards,
Astrid

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