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Roy is using Word to create envelopes for his mailings. The program does great at placing both the "return" and "to" addresses, but Roy needs to add the wording "First Class Mail International" in the lower-left corner of the envelope. He wonders if there is a way to have Word add this automatically when it creates an envelope.
There are a couple of different ways you can approach this issue. The first is that you can do something simple, like create your envelopes (do the merge operation to create them, if necessary), and prior to printing add a footer for the envelope that has the desired wording in the desired place. Since footers can appear on every page printed, your wording appears on each envelope created.
Another approach is perhaps the most flexible—create your own envelope template. Your template can include all the wording and element positioning you need. If you are creating the envelopes using mail merge, the template can even include merge fields to indicate where your data in placed on the envelope. Save the template and then use it as the basis for your source document in your future mail merges.
You can find some great ideas on modifying information on envelopes at these pages on Graham Mayor's web site:
http://www.gmayor.com/Alternative_Return_Addresses.htm http://www.gmayor.com/changing_envelope_layout.htm
Graham has also been kind enough to provide some ready-made templates for envelopes. Perhaps one of them could be used as a starting point for your own envelope template:
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm
Look for the downloadable file called "Envelope templates."
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2020-05-21 12:34:35
Adding Text to an Envelope:
I make envelopes for promotional material to be inserted in writing conference attendee bags. Using my HP 8720 printer I print a composite pdf image onto a white envelope. Other material is put in the envelope.
It would be easy to insert blank spaces for addresses into the pdf image. Then the pre-imaged envelopes could be addressed in any manner.
(see Figure 1 below)
Figure 1. Promotional Envelope
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