Family Mailing labels

[DorotheaRussell]

I'm trying to produce labels for families of our children for a mailout regarding VBS. Using the personal profiles area, I'm choosing "regular" and then the codes we have established for preschool and elementary children. Some labels print as "The Brown family" and others print a label for the child's name. I cannot figure out what is different about one child's profile compared to another as to what makes the label print differently. Any ideas?

[NeilZ]

I'm trying to produce labels for families of our children for a mailout regarding VBS. Using the personal profiles area, I'm choosing "regular" and then the codes we have established for preschool and elementary children. Some labels print as "The Brown family" and others print a label for the child's name. I cannot figure out what is different about one child's profile compared to another as to what makes the label print differently. Any ideas?

Check to see if you have the print mailing label setting Print one label per household turned on. This will do what you say its doing.

[DorotheaRussell]

Yes, I do have "one label per household" selected. Most of the labels are to "The Brown Family" or "The Smith Family" but several are coming printing "Bradley Russell" instead of to the family. Even if there are several children in the family, it is only printing one label, for the first child listed. There's got to be something somewhere that's not coded right - just can't figure out what!

[NeilZ]

Yes, I do have "one label per household" selected. Most of the labels are to "The Brown Family" or "The Smith Family" but several are coming printing "Bradley Russell" instead of to the family. Even if there are several children in the family, it is only printing one label, for the first child listed. There's got to be something somewhere that's not coded right - just can't figure out what!

If you have that 'one label per household' set, you will get ONLY one label per household.

Now depending on your selection criteria, those families with two kids that will be selected based on the selection criteria, will get 'The Smith Family', and those with alot of children, but only one qualifying under the selection criteria will get an individual label.

Turn off that setting, and you'll get labels for each child that falls under the selection criteria no matter how many kids qualify in a household.

Hope this helps.

[DorotheaRussell]

Thanks for the info. The children's pastor is wanting all the labels to read "The Brown Family", not to the individual children. Is there any way to produce labels like that?

[NeilZ]

Thanks for the info. The children's pastor is wanting all the labels to read "The Brown Family", not to the individual children. Is there any way to produce labels like that?

Unfortunately, not from within Powerchurch.

However, using the same selection criteria in the Personal Profile's Create Mail Merge File, you can create a mail merge file that you can then use in a word processing program such as MS Word, to create labels through that program's mail merge functionality.

You may have to manually edit the mail merge file to remove duplicate addresses, as the mail merge file function does not remove such duplicates as the built-in mailing label function does.

Hope this helps.