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Crea%ng Herbarium Labels with Mail Merge in Word Mobilizing Small Herbaria for Digi%za%on Workshop sponsored by iDigBio, Florida State University, Tallahassee December 911, 2013 Richard Carter, Curator of the Herbarium (VSC) Phillip Lowe, Undergraduate Assistant Biology Department Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia

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Page 1: Creaqng Herbarium Labels with Mail Merge in Word

Crea%ng  Herbarium  Labels  with  Mail  Merge  in  Word  Mobilizing  Small  Herbaria  for  Digi%za%on  Workshop  sponsored  by  iDigBio,  Florida  State  University,  Tallahassee  December  9-­‐11,  2013  

Richard  Carter,  Curator  of  the  Herbarium  (VSC)  Phillip  Lowe,  Undergraduate  Assistant  Biology  Department  Valdosta  State  University  Valdosta,  Georgia  

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Label  Merge  

•  Label  Merge  enables  pivo%ng  between  Specify  6  and  MS  Word™,  from  collec%on  data  in  an  Excel™  spreadsheet.  

Excel  spreadsheet  with  specimen  label  data  

MS  Word:  efficient  and  easy  specimen  label  produc%on  

Specify  6  Workbench:  efficient  and  easy  uploading  of  data    

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Label  Merge  •  Label  Merge  is  an  applica%on  of  MicrosoZ  Word  Mail  Merge™  that  produces  customized  herbarium  specimen  labels  in  MS  Word™  format,  from  data  in  an  Excel  spreadsheet.  

•  Once  the  specimens  are  labeled,  mounted,  and  barcode  labels  a\ached,  a  barcode  reader  is  used  to  beep  the  numbers  into  a  designated  field  in  an  Excel  spreadsheet.  

•  Using  the  Specify  Workbench,  the  fields  in  the  Excel  spreadsheet  are  easily  mapped  with  corresponding  fields  in  the  Specify  database  and  the  data  uploaded  into  the  database.  

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Word  labels  3  

Specimen  labeled,  mounted,  &    

barcode  a\ached  4  

Barcode  scanned  

5  

Excel  spreadsheet  

2  

 Field  notebook  

1    

Specify  Workbench  

6    

 Specify  db  

7  

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Excel  spreadsheet  with  43  columns  •  #Labels  Needed    •  Catalog#    •  Collec%on  Date    •  FirstName1    •  MiddleName1    •  LastName1    •  Collec%on#    •  Family      •  Genus    •  Species    •  Authority    •  Subsp    •  SubspAuth    •  Var    •  VarAuth    •  SynFamily      •  SynGenus    •  SynSpecies    •  SynAuthority    •  SynSubsp    •  SynSubspAuth    •  SynVar    

•  SynVarAuth    •  Det.  Note    •  Country    •  State    •  County    •  La%tude    •  Longitude    •  Locality    •  Habitat    •  AssociatedSpecies    •  Comment    •  FirstName2    •  MiddleName2    •  LastName2    •  FirstName3    •  MiddleName3    •  LastName3    •  DetFirstName    •  DetMiddleName    •  DetLastName    •  DetDate  

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Flexible  formadng  of    specimen  labels  

SIMAROUBACEAE    Leitneria  floridana  Chapman          U.S.A.  GEORGIA.  Dougherty  County:  N31.47369    W84.37551;  Chickasawhatchee  WMA,  open  pond  and  adjacent  swamp  forest;  with  Taxodium  ascendens,  Gleditsia  aqua?ca,  Cephalanthus  occidentalis,  Rhynchospora  careyana,  Panicum  hemitomon,  Pontederia  cordata,  Nymphaea  odorata,  Nyssa  aqua?ca,  Quercus  laurifolia,  Acer  rubrum,  Styrax  americana,  Leucothoe  racemosa,  Rosa  palustris;  shrub  1-­‐2  (-­‐3)  m  tall,  locally  common  in  standing  water  7.5  dm  deep  (water  temp.  38°F).      Richard  Carter  19671          19  Feb  2010  with  W.W.  Baker  &  P.  Spivey  det.  R.  Carter  

Valdosta  State  University  Herbarium  (VSC)  

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Open  the  Label  Merge  Word  document.  

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Select  “No”  on  the  prompt  window.  

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Move  to  the  “Mailings”  tab.  

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Press  the  “Select  Recipients”  bu\on.  

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Select  “Use  Exis%ng  List…”  from  the  drop  

down  list.  

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Select  the  Excel  document  that  

contains  your  data.  

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Select  the  Excel  page  with  your  data.  

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Select  “Preview  Results”  under  the  

Mailings  tab.  

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Select  the  “Start  Mail  Merge”  bu\on.  

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Change  the  format  from  “Le\ers”  to  

“Directory.”  

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Select  the  “Finish  &  Merge”  bu\on.  

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Select  “Edit  Individual  Documents”  from  the  

drop  down  list.  

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Press  OK  on  the  prompt  window.  

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This  will  bring  up  a  new  window  that  has  

converted  all  of  your  data  from  the  Excel  document  to  auto-­‐forma\ed  text.  

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Excel  spreadsheet  columns  are  easily  mapped  to  Specify  fields  through  the  Workbench.  

•  #Labels  Needed    •  Catalog#    •  Collec%on  Date    •  FirstName1    •  MiddleName1    •  LastName1    •  Collec%on#    •  Family      •  Genus    •  Species    •  Authority    •  Subsp    •  SubspAuth    •  Var    •  VarAuth    •  SynFamily      •  SynGenus    •  SynSpecies    •  SynAuthority    •  SynSubsp    •  SynSubspAuth    •  SynVar    

•  SynVarAuth    •  Det.  Note    •  Country    •  State    •  County    •  La%tude    •  Longitude    •  Locality    •  Habitat    •  AssociatedSpecies    •  Comment    •  FirstName2    •  MiddleName2    •  LastName2    •  FirstName3    •  MiddleName3    •  LastName3    •  DetFirstName    •  DetMiddleName    •  DetLastName    •  DetDate  

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Misc.  

•  Sort  mounted  specimens  by  collector  and  serial  collec%on  number  to  ensure  seamless  scanning  of  barcode  numbers  into  the  Excel  spreadsheet.      

•  The  Specify  Names  Table  includes  nomenclatural  authori%es:  To  avoid  conflicts  with  the  Specify  Names  Table,  ignore  nomenclatural  authori%es  when  mapping  the  Excel  spreadsheet  with  the  Specify  Workbench.    

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The  Label  Merge  protocol  was  developed  by  Phillip  D.  Lowe,  Undergraduate  Herbarium  Assistant,  Valdosta  State  University  

Herbarium  (VSC),  under  the  direc%on  of  Richard  Carter,  with  support  from  the  Na%onal  Science  Founda%on  (DBI  1054366,  J.R.  Carter,  Pl).