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Author: Kristenson, Joel

Last Updated: 2016-10-20

Overview

This article walks through the steps to create labels for households, instead of each individual.  This works whether you’ve householded your database or not which can be beneficial if you have a very large database and haven’t had time to household it yet.

Tip: You may want to instead export your data as householded records if it’s a very large list, to send it to your mail house, here’s how.

Steps

Navigate to the Donors (Voters/Contacts) list under the Application Menu.

Build and run your search query.  In my example I searched for all donors who gave last year and have a household of more than 3 people which produced 151 results.

Click the [Reports] button in the bottom-right of the screen.

Select the option for ‘Labels Name built by list-Combined House or by last name and address (Use Avery 5160) and click [OK].

Select your preference and click [OK].  In my example I chose the option for ‘<First Name> & <First Name> <Last Name>’.

The system will generate a print preview.  My example is below.

Once you’re satisfied click [Print].

Select your printer and click [Print] again.

Tip: If you’re printing a lot of pages you may want to set a range of just a few pages to make sure your margins and everything are aligned correctly.

The related resources below have links to other videos and articles related to householding and printing from your database.

Related Resources

Article: Managing Households – Creating, Deleting and Re-Creating

Article: Splitting ‘Couples’ into Separate Records En Masse using the Built-In Utility

Article: How to Split a Single Contact Record into a Duplicate Contact Record for Householding a Couple

Article: How to Create a Year-End Tax Letter Addressed to Individuals for the Entire Household using Merge Fields – Nonprofit Only

Article: Household Export

Article: How to Set an Attribute for All Members of a Household en masse

Article: How to Print Mail-Merge Address Labels

Article: Printing Envelopes

Article: (Mail-Merge) – How to Write a Letter, and Save it as a Template

Article: Mail Merge – Write a Letter

Video: Households – What To Do B4 Householding!!

Video: Households – Delete and Recreate

Video: Households – Combine More Than 5 Members

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