Agree with you, SD
Altho' I have Office, I don't speak Access - too old / too lazy / too stupid to learn.
So I use exactly the same process you suggest & it works. But on some labels I find (in Word 2003) that it's a bit iffy in trying to print half-labels at the bottom of one page & the next at the top of the next. So I agree: trial print one page on plain paper. (and prob. a print preview for the rest, just to check.)