Create and print a single envelope

If you want to include your return address on the envelope, you can set this up before you begin working on the envelope.

When you have established your envelope the method you desire, you can print it, in addition to wait so that you can recycle it.

What do you wish to do?

Establish a return address

1. Start Word.

2. Click the File tab.

3. Click Choices.

4. Click Advanced.

5. Scroll down, and under General, type your return address in the Mailing address box.

   Keep in mind: Word stores the address so that you can use it whenever you wish to insert your return address in an envelope, label, or other file.

6. Click OK.

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Verify printing options

Before you run a batch of envelopes through your printer, you can validate that the printer choices are set up properly.

1. On the Mailings tab, in the Create group, click Envelopes.

2. < img src="https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/7a96f0bb-3948-415e-bb48-33269e82ab27.gif"alt="Workplace 2010 Ribbon"/ > Click Alternatives, and then click the Envelope Options tab. In the Envelope size box, click the choice that matches the size of your envelope. If none of the choices matches your envelope size, scroll to the bottom of the list, click Custom-made size, and after that type the measurements of your envelope in the Width and Height boxes.

3. Click the Printing Options tab.

   The printer driver informs Word which method the envelope ought to be packed into the printer, and this information is displayed in the Printing Options tab of the Envelope Options dialog box.

   1. The feed approach determines the position of the envelope (right, middle, left) and whether the long or short edge is

   being fed into the printer. 2. The envelope can be face up or face down. The face is the side that the address is printed on. 3. If the envelope is fed short edge first, the envelope might require to be rotated to prevent the text from appearing upside down on the face of the envelope.

   The envelope in the illustration listed below is positioned to the right, face down, flap at the top, and the brief edge is being fed into the printer, in accordance with the settings in the dialog box revealed above.

4. Load the envelope as shown in

5. the dialog box. Click OK. Type some test text in the Delivery address box, and after that click Print to print the envelope.

6. Confirm that the envelope printed properly.

7. If the envelope did not print correctly, do any of the following:

   • Consult your printer info, if offered, to discover how to pack the envelopes into the printer.

   • Update your printer motorist.

   • Return to the Printing Options tab of the Envelope Options dialog box, and make adjustments to the printing alternatives. Print the envelope again. Repeat this procedure up until you find a configuration of printing alternatives that yields the outcomes that you want.

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Develop and print or conserve an envelope

1. On the Mailings tab, in the Create group, click Envelopes.

2. < img src="https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/7a96f0bb-3948-415e-bb48-33269e82ab27.gif"alt="Office 2010 Ribbon"/ > In the Shipment address box, type

   the mailing address. If you want to use an address in the electronic address book installed on your computer, click Insert Address .

3. If you want to format the text, choose the text, right-click the chosen text, and then click Typeface on the faster way menu.

   In the Return address box, type the return address or utilize the preconfigured one. If you wish to utilize an address in the electronic address book set up on your computer, click Insert Address. If you want to keep the return address for future use, however you don’t wish to include

4. it on the current envelope, pick the Omit check box. If you have access to electronic postage, for example if you purchased it from

5. a service on the Web, you can include it to your envelope. How? Select the Add electronic postage check box.

   If you do not

   1. have an electronic postage program installed

      , Microsoft Word triggers you to set up one and provides to connect to the Office.com site. There, you can get more information and links to other websites that provide electronic postage. To set alternatives for the electronic postage programs that are installed

   2. on your computer system, click E-postage Characteristics. Do among the following: If you wish to print the envelope without saving it for reuse

6. , insert an envelope in the printer as displayed in the

7. Feed box, and then click Print. If you want to save the envelope for reuse, click Contribute to Document, and then click the File tab, click Save As, and

8. type a name for the document. Word includes the envelope to the present document as Page 1. If you desire, you can utilize the rest of the document for typing correspondence

   that will automatically be stored with the envelope. To print the envelope, place an envelope in the printer as displayed in the Feed box on the Printing Options tab in the Envelope Options dialog box, and after that click

   Print. Top of Page Include a delivery and return address to a single envelope, set printer choices, adjust for envelope size

   , and conserve or print.