iMapp – I’ve Got Your Label
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So you’ve put together a gorgeous brochure and it’s time to get it out there. Why not let iMapp help you get it into the right hands? Among the many nifty tools that iMapp offers you, one of the most useful is the ability to print out mailing labels directly from the iMapp interface or the results of a search. Here’s how to set up your search to print address labels – that you can use over and over again.
Start with a Search
iMapp’s search utilities are incredibly flexible, as I talked about in my last article. You can search the MLS database and county tax records via multiple tools and interfaces. You might choose to search the tax records for owners of homes whose last sale was five or more years ago (because they’re most likely to be ready to move up), query for all addresses within a zip code or search with the map to find all homes that fit a specific criteria within a given area.
Search the map:
- Log-into MLXchange
- Click the Tax Search at the top
- Click the iMapp Tax Search at the top and Log into iMapp
- Go the Tax Search Tab.
- Define your search criteria using the checkboxes and dropdown boxes. Once you’ve selected your criteria you can select your area using the map below.
- Select the County you want to search from the “Search Area” dropdown box, just above the map
- Select a City from the “Search Extents” dropdown box
- On the map that appears, use the pan and zoom tools to find the area you want to search.
- Use the Select Area tool to define the area you want to search.
- Left-click and drag the cursor to create your shape.
- When you close your polygon or other shape, the search criteria box will open.
- Click “Perform Search”
- Your search results will open as a spreadsheet view.
Select the Addresses You Want
In spreadsheet view, you can easily eliminate any addresses that you don’t want to include in your mailing. Just click in the checkbox to deselect it, and it won’t show up on your labels list.
You can also narrow your list by refining your search, or broaden it by changing your search criteria to refine the parameters.
When you’re ready to print labels, you’ll have the option to remove duplicate addresses.
When you’ve modified your search results to include only the addresses that you want, I recommend saving your search, click “Save This Search” in the box to the right.
Set Up Your Labels
Click on “Create Mail Labels” in the box on the right. A box will open to allow you to set up your labels for printing. A few things are important to remember:
- Occupant will print “Occupant” on the first line of each label, and the actual physical address of the property.
- Owner will replace “Occupant” with the name of the property owner and the mailing address for the tax bill.
- Either Occupant or Owner with bar code will print either Occupant or the owner name with a bar code.
The remaining checkboxes in the label setup box will allow you to:
- replace the first line of the address label with a specific line
- remove duplicate addresses based on different criteria
- choose the text alignment for your labels
- choose the label type for your labels from the list of supported labels
Once your labels are set up to your satisfaction, click on the Create Labels as PDF button. A file download dialog box will open. Choose “Open” to view and print the completed PDF file. Print as usual from the Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
That’s it. That’s all there is to it. You can easily save the file as a PDF and call it up to print the labels any time that you want to reuse the address file.
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Date: Monday, January, 28th 2008 @ 05:32:00 AMViews: 365
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