In any database based from the personal address book template you can print Avery labels straight from Notes with no code. This has been in there a long, long time and is not a new R8 feature although the following how-to is based on Notes 8.5. You have upgraded right?

This came about when the intern (who owes me at least two blog posts and yes, I am guilting her out here) was looking to print some shipping labels. I was tasked with getting the data from a spreadsheet into a mail merge to print labels. When I asked why I was doing this, a very common issue arose - spreadsheets and word processors are far more familiar than Notes to most users as there is usually no training provided for Notes (intern included, which I guess is my fault....doh). Long story short, very few Notes users know about the label printing as it is not exactly obvious and a bit convoluted (really?).

Anyway, the STS CRM (a really, really pimped out PAB) was the source of the spreadsheet. Now, I really, really love to write code, it is the software engineer in me. However, as the old adage from back at college goes.....

Good programmers write good code.
Great programmers steal good code.

....I am always looking for an easy way out while maintaining a James Bond like composure. So I showed some of the STS peeps this little gem of Lotus Notes goodness:

1) Open the contact database of choice, in this case a R8 contacts database and select the contacts you wish to print labels for:


2) Select File/Print:


3) Select the "Documents Style" tab, "Print multiple documents on each page", the select the label of choice:


4) Print it out (here is a print preview):



Also remember, this will only work if you select documents not on a whole view. Selecting these can be a bit tedious if the view is large. If this is the case just create a folder and drag the contacts into that. When you've dragged all the label contacts in there, open the folder, CTRL+A (select all) and then print.

Easy, simple, no code.