Print membership cards, you'll be able to open a new document based on The same folder as your other Word templates. This would be a good time to save the document as a Word template, in When the layout isĭone, just delete any placeholder text and replace it with the Just to get a better sense of the finished layout. In laying out the card, I find it useful to type in a real name as placeholder text, Your membership cards for different levels of membership, locations,Įxpiry dates, or any other variables that are included as fields in Of the members -but of course you can expand this idea to customize This example, the only variables will be the first name and last name To view gridlines, go to the new 'Layout' tab that appears when you create a table, then click on 'View Gridlines'. The table, so you can see where to place the text within the card. It's helpful at this point to turn on gridlines for Requirements for the Clean Edge Business Cards that we've specified. The blank document now holds a table, set up to match the printing To set your labels to Avery 8871, select 'Avery US Letter' under 'Label Products' and then choose '8871 Clean Edge Business Cards' under 'Product Number'. Widely available at office supply stores. Sheets of business cards, plain or with a preprinted background, are That snap apart after printing, with a clean smooth edge. It's an 8½ x 11 inch page of business cards There are many built-in choices for label printing, and you can also make up your own custom layouts.įor the purposes of this tutorial, we'll be using the Avery 8871 stock. Under the 'Mailings' tab, click on 'Start Mail Merge' and select 'Labels'. Start up MS Word and open a new blank document. The interface may look a bitĭifferent from that of Word 2019, but the basic steps for mail merging a list and a document are very much the same. Word and other full-featured word processing programs have similarįunctions that can do the same operations. We'll show you the steps for creating membership cards with mail merge using MS Word 2019 as the example in this tutorial. Place the required mail-merge fields in the card template. Select the data source file (your Excel file). Set up a membership card in MS Word, using a Labels format. Your membership cards, and that's the method we'll use in the following tutorial. Your membership data, the mail-merge feature of MS Word,Ĭreating a custom membership card becomes easy and efficient.īusiness card sheets offer a convenient and economical option for creating Spend just a half-hour in a nonprofit office, and you're likely to be all too familiar with MS Word's mail merge feature - or at least, with the sheets of peel-and-stick mailing labels that can quickly be generated with it!Īnd where would a nonprofit be, without mail merge to help quickly create those direct mail pieces and personalized newsletters?īut those routine tasks are just the start of many ways that mail-merge can save time and effort in the office.