If you're searching for an "Avery 5160 Google Docs template," you're looking for a file Avery doesn't publish. Its template page for product 5160 offers six download formats. Google is not among them.
That's not a rumour or a stale blog post. It's what's on Avery's own page today, and it's the single most useful fact in this whole category, because every guide you'll read skips straight past it to "install an add-on."
The gap is real and it has two sides. Google never built label support. Avery built a Google Docs add-on, retired it, and now states it doesn't endorse the third-party apps carrying its name.
Here's exactly what exists, straight from both companies.
Last verified: 23 July 2026.
Key Takeaways
- Avery publishes no Google format for its flagship label. The 5160 template page offers Microsoft Word (.doc), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Adobe InDesign (.indd), Adobe PDF (.pdf) and Apple Pages (.pages). That's the complete list (Avery, template 5160).
- Avery retired its own Google Docs add-on. Its help article apologises to former users of its merge add-on "for any inconvenience for you to change..." and redirects them to Avery Design and Print Online (Avery Help).
- Avery doesn't endorse the add-ons trading on its name. Verbatim: "These applications are not endorsed or affiliated with Avery Products and we are unable to offer troubleshooting for these apps" (Avery Help).
- What Avery does offer is a separate web app. Avery Design and Print Online is "fully compatible with Google Sheets, so there's no need to convert files before doing a merge" (Avery). It isn't inside Google Docs.
- No add-on is required to print labels from Docs. A pre-formatted table with the right cell sizes and margins prints a label sheet on its own.
Does Avery work with Google Docs?
Partly, and not in the way most people expect. Avery's own template page for product 5160 lists six downloadable formats: Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PDF and Apple Pages (Avery). No Google format appears anywhere on it. Avery's Google compatibility runs through a separate web app instead, not through Google Docs.
So the honest answer splits in two. If "work with" means a template file you open in Docs the way you'd open a Word template, then no, Avery doesn't supply one. If it means Avery software that can read your Google data, then yes, and we'll get to exactly what that is.
The confusion is understandable. Avery's brand is so tightly welded to the phrase "address labels" that people assume an official Google path exists somewhere and they simply haven't found it. They keep searching. There's nothing to find.
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What formats does Avery publish for template 5160?
Six, and Google isn't one of them. Avery's page for 5160 offers Microsoft Word (.doc), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Adobe InDesign (.indd), Adobe PDF (.pdf) and Apple Pages (.pages) (Avery). The same page gives the product's verified specs: 1" x 2-5/8", 30 per sheet, White.
Look at that list once more. The published formats include a template for Apple Pages and none for Google. That is the shape of the gap.
Worth knowing: Avery's 5160 page also lists a run of equivalent product numbers that share the same layout. We're not reciting specs for those here, because the only dimensions we verified directly are 5160's.
The practical consequence is that every "Avery template for Google Docs" you find online was made by somebody other than Avery. That doesn't make those templates bad. Plenty are perfectly dimensioned. But it does mean there's no authoritative file to check yours against, which is why alignment problems in this category are so persistent and so badly diagnosed.
Citation capsule: Avery's template page for product 5160 offers downloads in exactly six formats: Microsoft Word (.doc), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), Adobe Illustrator (.ai), Adobe InDesign (.indd), Adobe PDF (.pdf) and Apple Pages (.pages). No Google Docs or Google Sheets format appears on the page. The page lists the product as 1" x 2-5/8", 30 per sheet, White (Avery, retrieved 23 July 2026).
Avery built a Google Docs add-on, then retired it
Avery once bridged this gap itself, and then stopped. Its help article, titled "Google Docs - Avery Merge Add-On," reads as a wind-down notice: it apologises to former users of the add-on "for any inconvenience for you to change..." and points them to Avery Design and Print Online instead (Avery Help). This is the part almost nobody mentions.
We went looking for a date on that article and there isn't one. No published date, no updated date, nothing in the body. So we can't tell you when Avery pulled the add-on, and we won't guess. Anyone who quotes you a year for it is filling in a blank.
What we can say is what the article does: it apologises to former users of the add-on, and it redirects them to Avery's own software "for compatibility with Google Sheets and Google Photos!" That's a company moving its Google support out of Docs and into its own product.
That reframes the whole search. You're not failing to find something that exists. You're looking for something that was deliberately discontinued by the company whose name is on it.
Why doesn't Avery endorse the add-ons carrying its name?
Because they aren't Avery's. Avery states it in the same help article, in one flat sentence: "These applications are not endorsed or affiliated with Avery Products and we are unable to offer troubleshooting for these apps" (Avery Help). Avery names specific third-party applications there. The names matter far less than the policy behind them.
The policy is what you need before you install anything. Third-party label add-ons that reference Avery products are built by independent developers. Avery doesn't stand behind them and won't troubleshoot them. If one misprints your sheet, Avery's support desk is not your route.
That cuts both ways, and it's worth being fair about. Several of these add-ons are well built and widely used. Avery's statement isn't a judgement on quality. It's a scope statement about support and affiliation, which is exactly the sort of thing you want to know in advance rather than discover at 9pm with 500 labels to run.
Citation capsule: Avery's help article on its retired Google Docs merge add-on states that third-party label applications referencing its products "are not endorsed or affiliated with Avery Products and we are unable to offer troubleshooting for these apps." The same article apologises to former users of Avery's own add-on and directs them to Avery Design and Print Online (Avery Help, retrieved 23 July 2026). No date appears on the article.
There's a related fact that clears up a lot of confusion. A widely used Marketplace add-on with Avery in its name, Avery Label Merge, is developed by Quicklution, and its own listing says so plainly: "Quicklution is not affiliated with Avery®" (Google Workspace Marketplace). Both parties agree on the point. Most users have simply never seen either statement.
What does Avery actually offer Google users?
A web app, not a Docs add-on. Avery Design and Print Online includes mail merge, described as "a free tool in Avery Design and Print Online (ADPO) that allows you to quickly import addresses, names, and more onto individual labels, name badges, and tags," and Avery states it's "fully compatible with Google Sheets, so there's no need to convert files before doing a merge" (Avery).
Read that carefully, because this is the exact point readers get wrong. ADPO runs in your browser on Avery's site. It is not an extension inside Google Docs, it doesn't appear in your Extensions menu, and it doesn't turn a Google Doc into a label sheet. It pulls data out of Google Sheets and into Avery's own designer.
That's a genuinely useful route if your data already lives in Sheets and you're happy to lay out and print from Avery's tool. It's the wrong route if what you actually wanted was to stay inside Google Docs.
So the mental model to carry away is this. Avery's Google support is data compatibility, not document compatibility. Sheets in, Avery's designer out. Docs never enters the picture.
Google's side of the gap is empty too
Neither company fills this in. Google's side of the gap is documented in our companion piece on label alignment: across the Google help pages that would plausibly carry label guidance, the words "label" and "Avery" simply don't appear, and a site-restricted search of support.google.com surfaces only user-authored community threads. So the reader arriving from a search engine gets no first-party spec from either direction.
So the publishable statement is a negative one, and it's firm: Google publishes no help documentation for creating or printing label sheets or Avery templates in Google Docs.
Put both halves together and the picture is unusually clean. Google never documented labels in Docs on the pages we checked. Avery documented labels for six non-Google formats, built a Google Docs bridge, then took it down. The space between them is filled entirely by independent developers and by templates of unknown provenance. Every difficulty people have in this category, wrong dimensions, drifting rows, sheets that print slightly small, traces back to that empty space where a first-party spec should be.
Three routes that actually exist
There are three, and only one of them lives inside Google Docs. Avery's own path is a separate web app that imports from Google Sheets (Avery). The second is a pre-formatted table in a Doc, which needs no extension at all. The third is a third-party Marketplace add-on, which Avery states it neither endorses nor supports (Avery Help).
| Route | What it is | Where it runs | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avery Design and Print Online | Avery's own free web app, including a mail merge tool | In your browser on avery.com, not in Google Docs | Avery says it's "fully compatible with Google Sheets, so there's no need to convert files before doing a merge" |
| A pre-formatted table in a Doc | An ordinary Google Doc with a table sized to the label grid | Inside Google Docs | No add-on needed. The table still has to print at true size, which is where alignment problems start |
| A third-party Marketplace add-on | An extension built by an independent developer | Inside Google Docs, via the Extensions menu | Avery states these "are not endorsed or affiliated with Avery Products" and that it can't troubleshoot them |
One thing to be clear about, because plenty of articles imply otherwise: an add-on is not required. A table with correct cell dimensions and margins prints labels from Docs unaided. Add-ons save you the setup and handle merging rows from a spreadsheet, which is real work, but the printing itself doesn't depend on one.
The catch with the manual route is size fidelity. Getting the grid right on screen is only half the job, because Docs prints through your browser and a few settings on either side can shrink the sheet before it reaches the paper. If your rows creep off the die cuts, that's a separate and solvable problem, covered in labels printing off center from Google Docs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there an official Avery template for Google Docs?
No. Avery's template page for product 5160 offers Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PDF and Apple Pages (Avery). That's the complete list, and no Google format appears on the page. Any "Avery template for Google Docs" you find was made by somebody other than Avery.
Did Avery have a Google Docs add-on?
Yes, and it's gone. Avery's help article "Google Docs - Avery Merge Add-On" apologises to former users of the add-on "for any inconvenience for you to change..." and points them to Avery Design and Print Online (Avery Help). No date appears on the article, so we can't say when.
Does Avery support the label add-ons in the Google Workspace Marketplace?
No. Avery states that such applications "are not endorsed or affiliated with Avery Products and we are unable to offer troubleshooting for these apps" (Avery Help). Separately, the developer of a widely used Avery-named add-on says the same from its side: "Quicklution is not affiliated with Avery®."
Can Avery's software use my Google Sheets data?
Yes. Avery describes mail merge as "a free tool in Avery Design and Print Online (ADPO)" for importing "addresses, names, and more onto individual labels, name badges, and tags," and says it's "fully compatible with Google Sheets" (Avery). It's a browser app on Avery's site, not an add-on inside Google Docs.
Do I need an add-on to print labels from Google Docs?
No. A document containing a table with the right cell dimensions and page margins prints a label sheet with nothing installed. Add-ons remove the setup work and merge data from a spreadsheet automatically. If your labels print misaligned, that's a scaling and page-format issue rather than a missing extension.
The Bottom Line
You're not missing anything. The Avery template you're hunting for in Google Docs doesn't exist, and the reason is a gap between two companies that neither has closed.
Avery publishes 5160 in six formats. Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PDF and Apple Pages. Google appears nowhere on that page. Avery built a Docs add-on and retired it, redirects former users to its own web app, and states it doesn't endorse or support the third-party apps carrying its name. Google, for its part, publishes no help documentation for labels in Docs on any of the pages we checked.
What actually works is three things. Avery Design and Print Online if your data is in Sheets and you're content to print from Avery's tool. A well-built table if you want to stay in Docs. A third-party add-on if you want merging inside Docs, with clear eyes about who supports it.
Whichever you pick, check the printed sheet against a real one before you commit a box of labels to it.
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Sources
All sources retrieved 2026-07-23.
- Avery, template page for product 5160 (formats offered, and listed specs of 1" x 2-5/8", 30 per sheet, White): https://www.avery.com/templates/5160 (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Avery Help, "Google Docs - Avery Merge Add-On" (retirement notice, redirect to Avery Design and Print Online, and non-endorsement of third-party applications): https://www.avery.com/help/article/google-docs-avery-merge-add-on (retrieved 2026-07-23; no publication or update date shown on the article)
- Avery, Google Drive partner page (Avery Design and Print Online mail merge, and Google Sheets compatibility): https://www.avery.com/software/partners/google-drive/ (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Workspace Marketplace, Avery Label Merge listing by Quicklution ("Quicklution is not affiliated with Avery®"): https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/avery_label_merge/687713670524 (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Docs Editors Help, "Print a file" (answer 143346): https://support.google.com/docs/answer/143346?hl=en (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Docs Editors Help, "Change page settings" (answer 10296604): https://support.google.com/docs/answer/10296604?hl=en (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Docs Editors Help, "Add and edit tables" (answer 1696711): https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1696711?hl=en (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Docs Editors Help, pages and pageless format (answer 11528737): https://support.google.com/docs/answer/11528737?hl=en (retrieved 2026-07-23)
- Google Chrome Help, printing from Chrome (answer 1069693): https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1069693?hl=en (retrieved 2026-07-23)
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