Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

[msevior physics unimelb edu au]

> I'm in a position of having to begin using gnumeric to handle the
> membership of a large organization, with very little experience in
> gnumeric and none at all in Excel.
>
> I've entered much of the data, and know that eventually I'll need to
> print labels from it. I don't use a word processor, but LaTeX (with
> emacs under Debian sarge).
>
> I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels,
> but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a
> source of information or offer a little guidance?
>
> And a newbie question about the suitability of my organization of data
> in gnumeric for printing labels. I have put addresses in three
> columns: a) a column, usually empty, but available for cases where
> there might be either a c/o or a two-line street address, b) a street
> address, and c) city-state-zip.
>
> I apologize for a very elementary question, but does this organization
> of address data seem wise in light of my intention eventually to print
> labels from it? I'll want to avoid printing an empty line in cases
> where column (a) above has no data, so that data in cols (b) and (c)
> follow immediately after the recipient's name.

Hi Haines,
           The simplest is to export your gnumeric data file to a csv then
use AbiWord to generate the mailing labels.

See:

http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtomailmerge.html

Cheers

Martin

PS. I did exactly this a few days ago.

> Haines Brown
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