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I'm gonna rant. You guys make Everything so fricking hard. My wife is the Relief Society secretary in our ward. She needed to print address labels for All the RS sisters in the ward. I tried to help her since I am the more computer literate.
Tried to print them from the website. Couldn't figure it out. Help file was outdated and no help.
I ended up downloading the list as a PDF file and spent 12 hours trying to get it into Word in a usable format, and I have Acrobat!
Converting PDF files to Word documents results in a DOCX file with a thousand text boxes that is basically unusable for ANYTHING. Spent several hours on the internet trying everything I could find to remove the text boxes and leave the text. No method was entirely successful.
Converted PDF list to an Excel file. Acrobat does a LOUSY job of that, too. Spent several more hours getting the Excel file into a usable format and correcting all the errors.
Finally got the data into a table and then spent several MORE hours figuring out Word's Mail Merge process. While I know you are not responsible for Word's Mail Merge difficulties, it's still something that took a lot of time.
I realize that some of the difficulty is by design because you don't want this information "easlly disseminated, but for those of us that actually have to use the information, it is really hard and time consuming. Isn't there SOME way you can allow downloads in ANOTHER FORMAT besides PDF?

dalewebb wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:02 am Isn't there SOME way you can allow downloads in ANOTHER FORMAT besides PDF?

You are preaching to the choir, sorry. Here at the Forum we are users just as you are. The way to get requests to the developers is either to submit feedback or to have your stake president run the request through your coordinating council up to those who make the decisions and tell the developers what to do.

Also, your ward clerk or executive secretary is able to print labels. She might ask one of them if they are able to print a set for just the Relief Society sisters without having to print labels for the entire ward.

lajackson wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:36 am

dalewebb wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:02 am Isn't there SOME way you can allow downloads in ANOTHER FORMAT besides PDF?

You are preaching to the choir, sorry. Here at the Forum we are users just as you are. The way to get requests to the developers is either to submit feedback or to have your stake president run the request through your coordinating council up to those who make the decisions and tell the developers what to do.

Also, your ward clerk or executive secretary is able to print labels. She might ask one of them if they are able to print a set for just the Relief Society sisters without having to print labels for the entire ward.

Relief Society only mailing labels can be printed by the clerk. I am looking at them for our ward right now. Member list>individuals>Relief Society>mailing labels

Yeah, but the clerk won't print them "cute" like the RS wants.

dalewebb wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:31 pm Yeah, but the clerk won't print them "cute" like the RS wants.

Very true. Cute is not an option, even in LCR.

The post office might not be able to read them optically if they are cute either. Am sure they prefer normal mailing labels. Perhaps the cuteness can be added to the contents of the envelope instead?