Create and print a single envelope

On the Mailings tab, in the Create group, click Envelopes.

Click Options, and then click the Envelope Options tab.

In the Envelope size box, click the choice that matches the size of your envelope. If none of the choices matches your envelope size, scroll to the bottom of the list, click Custom size, and then type the dimensions of your envelope in the Width and Height boxes.

Click the Printing Options tab.

The printer driver tells Word which way the envelope should be loaded into the printer, and this information is displayed in the Printing Options tab of the Envelope Options dialog box.

1. The feed method determines the position of the envelope (right, middle, left) and whether the long or short edge is being fed into the printer.

2. The envelope can be face up or face down. The face is the side that the address is printed on.

3. If the envelope is fed short edge first, the envelope may need to be rotated to prevent the text from appearing upside down on the face of the envelope.

The envelope in the illustration below is positioned to the right, face down, flap at the top, and the short edge is being fed into the printer, in accordance with the settings in the dialog box shown above.

Load the envelope as indicated in the dialog box.

Click OK.

Type some test text in the Delivery address box, and then click Print to print the envelope.

Verify that the envelope printed correctly.

If the envelope did not print correctly, do any of the following:

Consult your printer information, if available, to find out how to load the envelopes into the printer.

Update your printer driver.

Go back to the Printing Options tab of the Envelope Options dialog box, and make adjustments to the printing options. Print the envelope again. Repeat this process until you discover a configuration of printing options that yields the results that you want.