Here's an idea I had, but since I don't know how to do it in Word or if it's even feasible, I bring it to the more experienced guys. The page I use for labels measure 215x320 mm; each label is 41x61 mm and are all contiguous, no space between them either vertically or horizontally. They are all pre-cut in this adhesive sheet.
What I figured as a fast and effective solution to the problem is a way to make little "windows" that are connected to each other in a way that, when the text overflows from one window, it continues on the next one. When the last window of a page has its capacity filled, the text then flows to the first window of the next page and so on, automatically creating new pages as needed.
Because the addresses have varying number of lines/paragraphs, I could then simply press Enter enough times to push the whole text behind that point, effectively putting the addresses below in their correct windows. This task would consume much, much less time than having to turn the whole bunch of addresses into a proper database or table, which is not a demand of my customer. I rather prefer not having to do it if a simpler solution exists or can be made!
Attached is a zip file containing images for better understanding, using the same 25 addresses attached in my previous post. What you guys think, is such a solution simple to do, or at all possible? If it's possible to make such a "windows grid mask" (I don't how the correct name) with variables for sizes, it could be adapted to labels of other sizes and quantities as well. In this example it's a 5x5 grid but I have labels in 4x4 to 7x7 grids as well as 4x6 and 6x9.
Last edited by Bugfinder; 11-12-2017 at 10:51 AM.
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