Printing Avery labels with Apple Numbers or alternatives

Excel or alternative? Printing Labels, period!

My wife pays $100+ every year to use Excel about 8 times so she can print Avery labels to place on her canned goods.

LibreOffice is touted as an alternative, but don't know if its Calc version will supplant Excel for label printing.

Excel can be bought for one time $150+, is the first look alternative, but heck can I get an old version of Excel in some archive for free or something?

OR, I have tried unsuccesfully, to actually use, wait for it!, NUMBERS. To no avail. Maybe I just don't know the tricks or there is no template for Avery stock and NUMBERS.


I am hoping someone here has more of a clue than I?!

Mac mini, macOS 14.1

Posted on Jan 28, 2026 2:43 PM

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Posted on Jan 28, 2026 3:15 PM

I’ll just add that Avery’s website provides numerous templates and options for printing most anything. My wife is the membership secretary for a small non-profit and she designs and prints mailing labels and membership badges for about 150 members, all on Avery’s website. Select the Avery label# you are using and the template and away you go. You can print from the website or download a printable PDF and use you local printer. No special software needed.


She used to use the Avery app that did the same thing but Avery stopped developing their app and went online only.


Just a thought

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Jan 28, 2026 3:15 PM in response to Brian Schreiber

I’ll just add that Avery’s website provides numerous templates and options for printing most anything. My wife is the membership secretary for a small non-profit and she designs and prints mailing labels and membership badges for about 150 members, all on Avery’s website. Select the Avery label# you are using and the template and away you go. You can print from the website or download a printable PDF and use you local printer. No special software needed.


She used to use the Avery app that did the same thing but Avery stopped developing their app and went online only.


Just a thought

Jan 28, 2026 2:54 PM in response to Brian Schreiber

There are several potential options open to you, depending on on how complex your labels are.


For a start, check out Apple's Numbers spreadsheet app. It should be preinstalled on your system.


Numbers can open standard Excel documents and preserve 9(% of the formatting, formulas, etc., so your answer may be as simple as opening the Excel .xlsx file in Numbers and you're done.


For more extensive solutions that don't involve a spreadsheet (not sure who thought of using a spreadsheet for labels in the first place... but I digress...), check out:


https://www.avery.com/templates/category/address-shipping-labels


Avery have templates on their site for all their labels. Templates are available in a variety of formats, including Word, PDF and Pages.


You can download and open the Pages document, then format the labels as you like.

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