Creating address labels

ceewash

I am trying to produce my own address labels for guests' wedding invitations. I have an Macbook air and open office. I have managed to do it using my contact lists and it worked well, but I am not able to change font or letter size and it all looks a bit functional. Can anyone guide me through another way. I am not having much success.
I also have not been able to find someone who can do it for me.

Neil_Jones

I think what you probably want is a Mail Merge:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Creating_Mail_Merge_Documents_From_Text/CSV_or_Spreadsheets

ceewash

Sorry too complicated for me. I've only got basic level skills so got lost in that. Thanks anyway.

mart44

Quite an outlay to start with but I've found a dedicated label printer a good investment. Bought a Dymo Label Writer 330 Turbo many years ago and it still working well (Windows 11).

Single or multiple self-adhesive address labels reel out in a single strip. Add clipart (prints only in greyscale, not colour). Change the font. Thermal printing so never needs ink. Good for quickly printing a label and very useful for the Christmas card list. I think it would be good for what you need to do but there is the initial cost to consider. Once bought it's there for future purposes.

ceewash

Thank you I'll look at this.

libra10

I also have a Dymo label writer, and would recommend.

John_Gray

If you had a Windows PC you would find there is a lot of label-making software around, which basically produces a template (usually a Word table) which has the same layout as the sheet of labels, and you can type into each cell=label to supply the name and address.  Avery (notoriously-expensive label firm) used to provide this free, but I'm not sure whether they still do.

Surely Mac users have this sort of thing available to them, too?

ceewash

I think I've managed to do it on Google docs. It has an extension for label making. Just waiting for the labels to arrive so I can try it out. I will definitely look at the label maker machine though for the future. Thanks for all your help.