TagsYou know what you want--labels! Ah, but what do you want to label? Mail? Gifts? CDs or DVDs? Be sure to check out the available label templates on Office.com. Or perhaps you want to label an Excel chart?

Read on for links to help with common labeling tasks you can get done using Office.

Create labels for a mass mailing

Want to do a mass mailing using contact data stored in an Office program? Mail merge lets you do just that. Check out these articles and videos to help you on your way.

Read about it

Create and print labels for a mass mailing (Word 2007)

Create and print labels for a mass mailing (Word 2003)

Create and print mailing labels for an address list in Excel (Excel 2007)

Print labels by using Excel data in a Word mail merge (Excel 2003)

Watch how it's done

Demo: Use the Mail Merge feature to create mass mailings (Word 2007)

Demo: Use mail merge to format and print mailing labels (Word 2003)

Create other labels (gifts, CDs/DVDs, case inserts, tags, and more)

Need to organize your stuff, or mark it as your own? Printed labels can help you straighten things out, so everything is obvious at your fingertips. Use Word to type and print your labels.

Type a sheet of different labels (Word 2007)

Create and print labels for a single item or address (Word 2003)

Label axes and data in an Excel chart

Not everything with labels is printed. Consider Excel charts: Labels can make the difference between a great chart and a confusing jumble. Read the following articles for help with the labels on your chart data and axes.

Add or remove data labels in a chart (Excel 2007)

Change the display of chart axes (Excel 2007)

Add data labels to a chart (Excel 2003)

Change chart axes (Excel 2003)

You can find more great resources for creating labels with Word 2010 in the Word Blog post Address labels and more.

-- Steven Thomas