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Well the wife was doing the Christmas cards and she asked me to print address lables like I had did in previous years on the old computer. I opened up Microsoft word 2007 on the new computer and went to mailings and tried to print off the labels. I had all the addresses in a data base in microsoft works. I followed the directions but when I try to print them I either get nothing or the printer starts shooting out paper like crazy and all the sheets are blank. I know it must be me because the printer will print anything else with out a problem. This has me stumped and I have tried to figure out my mistake for several days.
Microsoft Works is the stripped down version of Word. XP and Vista machines save word documents to a different format of word by default. XP is a .doc extension which is typically a Word 2003 version with a .doc extension. Vista is usually a 2007 version with a .docx extenstion.
You didn't mention which software you had on the current computer, but there may be an issue between them when you save the entire label list to another word application and try to print it. If you have a Vista machine, I personally think mail merge or importing existing lists is more trouble than it's worth. I can retype a list quicker than I can go thru all the steps.
You may need to retype the entire list using your current computer, but first I would cut and paste an address from the Works list then I would manually type an addresses. If either or both prints to a plain sheet of paper from the new computer then that's the quickest and easiest way to do all of the labels. By the time you figure out the current problem, it can be done manually and will be good for next year.
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Microsoft Works is the stripped down version of Word. XP and Vista machines save word documents to a different format of word by default. XP is a .doc extension which is typically a Word 2003 version with a .doc extension. Vista is usually a 2007 version with a .docx extenstion.
Just want to make a clarification here. XP and Vista are operating systems. Operating systems have no bearing on what format word documents are saved in, it's the version of Word you are using that determines that.
Word 2003 and below save documents in the .doc format by default.
Word 2007 and above save word documents in the .docx format by default.
Both of these versions work on computers with Windows 2000 and above. It's a common mistake that people mix and match Office products with the Operating system version.
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I am running Vista with Word 2007, but the data base I was trying to use was made on the old computer running win 98 and an old version of word. So maybe that is the problem. If I would copy and paste the information to another database made on the Win 2007 would that change it to the new file? As you can see I am not up to par on computers.
Just want to make a clarification here. XP and Vista are operating systems. Operating systems have no bearing on what format word documents are saved in, it's the version of Word you are using that determines that. Word 2003 and below save documents in the .doc format by default. Word 2007 and above save word documents in the .docx format by default. Both of these versions work on computers with Windows 2000 and above. It's a common mistake that people mix and match Office products with the Operating system version.
I should have mentioned that Vista machines typically have 2007 while the XP have 2003. Good point Dago.
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