Microsoft Word

[Dleopoldi914]

I am creating wedding invitations and created my first label with the formatting I wanted. I was curious if there is a shortcut key similar to alt+e+s in excel that I can copy paste the format from the first label on to all the rest in microsoft word?

 

[MrsPen]

Good morning! I'm not sure what type of formatting you have but the "Format Painter" works for most formatting. It's icon is a little paint brush and can be found with the cut and copy commands.
Hope this helps!

 

[Dleopoldi914]

I have a bunch of text. I format the first label the way I want. Now how do I copy and paste just that format onto all the other labels. In excel I can use alt+e+s and select format and it will format the cel the same as the area I have cut and pasted from. Any advice?

 

[MrsPen]

Click on the format painter and highlight the contents of the first label. Your cursor will turn into a little paint brush, then move onto the next label and highlight. This will only bring across the formatting, no text or pictures.

Clicking the format painter once will only copy the formatting once. If you want to do multiple labels based on the same formatting, double click the icon first.
Cheers!

 

[Dleopoldi914]

Thank you for your help

 

[RobMatthews]

Can you just do a mail merge, so that the adressee is a "field", and everything else is static, and the list of addressee is imported from elsewhere?

Sorry for the generic-ness of my reply, I've only watched my wife do mail merges, not actually done them myself.

 

[MrsPen]

Hi Rob,
I'm not sure what you mean by the addressee being a field. Normally when you do a mail merge, you move large quantities of information (ie names, addresses and postal codes) from one format (normally a spreadsheet) into a label or document. Can you give me an example of what you are trying to do?
Cheers!

 

[RobMatthews]

Sorry, my wording might not have been clear. I was making a suggestion to the OP.

 

[Macropod]

If you're doing a label mailmerge, simply clicking on 'Update Labels' after formatting the first one should result in all the labels being updated to reflect the first one's content and formatting.