
(The Envelope Options dialog box is displayed when you click on the Options button in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box.) Good question-those settings are for single-use changes. With these changes to the styles and template necessary, you may be wondering what good the settings are in the Envelope Options dialog box. Now, when you save your document or close Word, you are asked if you want to save your changes to the template.
Word displays the Modify Style dialog box.
Click the drop-down arrow, then choose Modify. A drop-down arrow should appear at the right side of the style name. In the list of styles, hover the mouse pointer of the Envelope Address style. Using the Show drop-down list at the bottom of the task pane, choose All Styles. Word displays the Styles and Formatting task pane. Choose Styles and Formatting from the Format menu. If you are using Word 2002 or Word 2003, the steps are slightly different: Click on Cancel to close the Style dialog box. Make sure the Add to Template check box is selected, at the bottom of the Modify Style dialog box. Repeat steps 4 through 6 until all your changes are complete. Using the dialog box presented by Word, make the change. Choose the element of the style you wish to change. This displays the Modify Style dialog box. In the list of styles, select Envelope Address. In the List drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box, make sure you select All Styles. Choose the Style option from the Format menu. To do this, follow these steps if you are using Word 97 or Word 2000: What this means is that if you find you need to change any of the above items, you need to change the styles on which that envelope is based. The parameters by which an envelope is created are controlled by the styles defined within a template or a document. Is the envelope orientation the right way round for printing through the given printer?. Are the margins causing the envelope address frame to be positioned outside of the printable area?. Is the envelope text using some color that makes the text invisible on your printer?. After all, what you see there is the basis for what is printed. Basically, you are checking what you see on the screen to see if it makes sense and is what you expect. With the envelope added to your document (it is in its own section at the beginning of your document) you can check a couple of things. After the problem is solved, you can go back to directly printing.) (Remember, this is just for troubleshooting. Instead of choosing to print directly to the printer, choose to add the envelope to the document. Perhaps the best place to start is to change how you are printing the envelopes. Trying to track down problems (and their attendant solutions) with the envelope features can be confusing and time-consuming. This, despite the fact that a return address was highlighted and the built-in envelope features of Word were used. Gay wrote with a problem concerning the printing of blank envelopes by Word.