I need to use Word and Excel 2016 for windows PC to make some labels that are not address labels, but rather archival labels for some biological specimens. On my home mac, after I link to my excel spreadsheet, a dialogue box pops up that allows me to place fields where I want, add extra text to be repeated on each label, and format the labels exactly as I want, but on my work PC, it seems that the mail merge expects only names and addresses and other predefined fields.
My problem is that, instead of putting names and postal addresses on the labels, I need to put my own custom fields for accession numbers, locality data, GPS coordinates, elevation, collection dates, and other pertinent information. I have done this many times on a mac, but to my dismay, it seems that the PC version either lacks the necessary functionality or I can't find how to do it.
Can anyone help or point me to some resources?