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We have been an open dental user since 2010. At present letters are printed and the envelope is hand addressed. What is the quickest way to print a label for a letter? I noticed that inexpensive small individual label printers exist that can be loaded with labels at all times.

Any advice and recommendations?

Thanks,

Gene

Roll Tide Roll

option 1 Use Mail Merge

After you use any of the queries that are available on Opendental Query website , you will be able to export the list/results of that query as an Excel document

1- Export the list AS AN EXCEL DOCUMENT,

2- use Microsoft Word to create the labels
3- Create Mailing Labels in Word using Mail Merge from an Excel Data Set

YOUTUBE video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEyvGHvlpk
jump to the time 2:30 to make the labels in Word

Use Mail Merge to Create Mailing Labels in Word from an Excel Data Set

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option 2

https://www.opendental.com/manual/labels.html

genebrabston wrote:We have been an open dental user since 2010. At present letters are printed and the envelope is hand addressed. What is the quickest way to print a label for a letter? I noticed that inexpensive small individual label printers exist that can be loaded with labels at all times.

Any advice and recommendations?

Thanks,

Gene

Roll Tide Roll

Hello Gene

I have used a Dymo 220, there are newer versions available.
If you purchase a Dymo label printer and load the drivers, Open Dental can access the printer directly.
If you go to File -> Printers -> Labels -Single > default

Set you default label printer to Dymo.

You should then be able to print insurance labels etc.

Hope this helps,


Iron-Man