MS Word - Shipping Label Questions
 

Hey all...

So, my wife works for a pretty large company that sells bio-compostable products in retail stores, as well as directly to food establishments. She needs to make up something like 900 shipping labels for the latest shipment to Cost Plus, and Cost Plus has some requirements for the labels. One of them is that every case needs to be marked "1 of 900", "2 of 900", "3 of 900" etc. She doesn't want to have to do these each one by one in Word, and if I remember correctly there is some way to make Word do it for you isn't there? Some kind of merge of macro or whatever it's called where it will auto-populate a field with a progression of numbers/letters/words/names etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Here's a couple of pages that discuss this kind of thing, with more than one method of getting there.
FAIR WARNING: I haven't tried anything in either page (especially not the add-in one) but it appears to make sense.

Set up Sequential number template
Numbered Labels

I was going to suggest what the second link does with the Excel data file as an inelegant but workable solution but they go into much better detail than I could have.

Option #2 worked great. Thanks Jon