This article provides instructions on three of the most common ways to print an envelope on a Mac. We used a Mac running macOS 10.15 Catalina, Pages 10, and Microsoft Word 2016. The steps and menu names may vary slightly in other versions, but the concepts are the same.

The first few steps are the same for all of the instructions below.

The easiest but least-known way to print envelopes on a Mac is to use the pre-installed Contacts app. It just makes sense: You already have addresses stored in the app, so printing them on envelopes is the next step. Here’s what you need to do:

Open the Contacts app and browse or search for the person whose address you want to print.