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DonAwalt
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Sep 25, 2018
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Hi all, I have an Office 365 subscription, as well as downloaded Word and Excel for Mac and Word. I mostly use Office on Mac, but need the Windows version because I do a lot of label generation and t...
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    VasilMichev
    Sep 28, 2018

    the confusion here stems from the fact that some marketing geniuses at Microsoft decided to use the "Office 365" name for a variety of different products, and even worse insist on using it interchangeably... Anyway, to answer your question, you should be using the full desktop (Windows) versions of the Office 365 Pro Plus package, as the web versions do not support labeling or mail merge.

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VasilMichev
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Sep 28, 2018

the confusion here stems from the fact that some marketing geniuses at Microsoft decided to use the "Office 365" name for a variety of different products, and even worse insist on using it interchangeably... Anyway, to answer your question, you should be using the full desktop (Windows) versions of the Office 365 Pro Plus package, as the web versions do not support labeling or mail merge.

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DonAwalt
Copper Contributor
Sep 29, 2018

Thanks you. Besides the product naming confusion they should really stop suggesting that Office 365/web is best for all users. I'll stick with the desktop versions!

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