Customized Address Labels

I am looking for a solution that will allow me to take contacts from my Address Book and create mailing lables that use the "The Smith Family" format rather than the "Joe Smith" format that AddressBook is creating. I do not want to change all of the names in order to print lables occasionally. I know that in Word I can use Labels and Mail Merge to do this but it is very time consuming and harder to get all the programs to play nice with each other.

I have a similar qeustion, but probably easier to solve.
I've really enjoyed the ease of printing envelopes from Address Book, but it seems very inflexible. I simply want to customize my envelopes and labels to print the names AND the company of a contact. So it might read:
John Smith
Apple Corp
somewhere
Fornia, CA 00000
I can't find a way to set the preferrences in Address Book to do that. Am I missing something obvious? It seems that it should easily do this.

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    dianal.
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