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I am trying to print Christmas Cards on open office2.0 can anyone can help
please
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
Better people than I can probably help you better, so I will see if I
can simply get a few things started.
Be very very specific in your setup, how far you managed to get, and
what the problem really is. I will state some assumptions so that you
can provide modified details to assist us in helping you...
Problem one:
Are you trying to print mailing labels? If this is the case, then I
assume that you have some data someplace (say a spreadsheet).
Problem two:
I am working to hard and you really do mean that you want to print
Christmas cards. You want to design a special card and you can not setup
the page exactly as you want it. If this is the case, then are you
trying to design a simple page (as in a sheet of paper and printing a
letter) or do you have some kind of fancy paper that is folded in a
certain way? I recently designed and printed a couple different
tri-folds which had information on both sides of the paper. I printed
them on a nice duplex color laser printer and they look wonderful.
Problem three:
You have some kind of letter designed and NOW you want to personalize it
by performing a mail merge. A mail merge would allow your christmas card
to read something like: <person's name here> and now for my special
Christmas Message...
Based on another reply that you already entered, you have problem two.
Here is your reply:
> Warick I have this problem, the instructions on my christmas card
says this top margin 5.25
> side margin 0.25, label height 5.25, label width 8.00, number across
1, number down 1
> I have gone to the label document but I can't get some of the margins
to change?
> can you help me
> Kevin
If I am correct, then you have special "card stock". If you pickup this
card stock, is the entire label 8 inches wide and 5.25 inches tall? I
assume that perhaps you have perforated edges that you can rip off with
0.25 inch margins.
When they say that you have one accross and one down, this can be a bit
confusing. consider mailing labels for a second. This will make no sense
if you have never seen mailing labels, of course. In the mailing labels
that I use, I buy them in sheets of thirty. So, I have a piece of paper
that is 8.5 inches wide and 11 inches tall. Each sheet contains 30
labels. There are ten rows of labels. Each row has 3 labels. After the
labels are printed, I can peel the labels off and place them on my
envelopes.
OK, now back to your issues. They are saying that these are 8 inches
wide and 5.25 inches tall. I would say that you can solve this problem
in one of two ways. Either, you can create a page style that matches
this (do you know how to use page styles?) or you can define a label
style (which it sounds like you are trying to do so I will pursue this).
Use File | New | Labels
If you are using Avery lables, then you are in luck because many of
these labels are ALREADY defined. Choose the brand from the Brand drop
down in the lower left...
Now, if you are using Avery, then the card will have a stock number. It
will say something like: "5389 Post Card". I did not see anything like
what you explained, so perhaps this is not the case. Therefore, you need
to define your own. Click on the "Format" tab. Here, you can enter the
dimensions.
I would continue, but it is 1:30 am and I need to get up for Church in
the morning (and if I do not head up for bed now, then "she who must be
obeyed" will probably have my carcus...)
Am I at least on the right track with this?
--
Andrew Pitonyak
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