address labels

Hello,
I know some of you said that if I keep track of my addresses in excel I can use that to make labels.

Can someone walk me through that?

Thanks

I just made an excel sheet
Name, street address, town, state, zip in each field and then mail merged it with word when I was ready to print the e-party labels. Now that Im getting e-party rsvps i put a field in for that and its keeping a running total for me.

What does mail merge mean?

thanks so much!