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Click the button that shows a left arrow to insert the database field into the Label Text box.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0130200903370930" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Continue to select and insert database fields if you want more fields on every label. You can press Enter to insert a new line, and you can type any character to insert fixed text.</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0130200903370924" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Optionally, if you want to type more text, apply formatting, or insert images and line art, you should enable <emph>Synchronize contents</emph> on the <emph>Options</emph> tab. If you enable this, once you leave the Labels dialog box a small window opens with a Synchronize button. Now you only need to work on the first label on the labels document, then click the Synchronize button to copy your work to every label of the document.</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10687" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>New Document</emph>.</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 61*b426ac2bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148685" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">When you see the label document, you might want to temporarily enable <item type="menuitem">View - Field Names</item>. This displays the fields in a more visible manner, so that you can arrange and edit label contents more easily.</paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 64*b426ac2bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148484" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">You can save and/or print the label document.</paragraph> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8476821" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">When you choose to print the document, you will be asked if you want to print a form letter. Answer Yes to open the <link href="text/swriter/01/01150000.xhp">Mail Merge</link> dialog. In the Mail Merge dialog, you can select the records for which you want to print labels.</paragraph> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/guide/labels.xhp#labels"/> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 71cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 72cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 73