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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Well, ideally you'd find a built-in label definition that had four labels to
a page. For example, something like Avery 8387 (which is a "Post Card").
Select that label, type your information into the little box, choose "Full
page of the same label," and then click "New Document."

Two problems with this approach:

1. If you want your cards to be in portrait orientation, then that label
definition wouldn't work (they're landscape).

2. It's unlikely you can get your material formatted the way you want in the
dialog box, so you're going to have to do some tweaking in the document.

You can work around (1) by creating a custom label definition, which at
least will give you a start (the advantage to this is that, because it
starts as a "label," Word works some sort of magic with regard to getting
rid of headers and footers and suppressing the annoying messages about your
margins being outside the printable area and such). As for (2), it's still
pretty easy to set up your text in one table cell, then copy/paste into the
rest (you copy one cell, then select the whole table and paste).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Joy" wrote in message
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Suzanne, How does one select a "4-up label layout"?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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If you select a 4-up "label" layout and choose "Whole page of the same
label," you can get the same effect in Word.

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"Joy" wrote in message
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I have both Word and WordPerfect and I must comment that doing this is

SO
easy in WordPerfect. I wish that Word (since most people have that

only,
not WP or both) would make such page divisions as easy!

"Darin Lambe" wrote in message
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I would like to print a document I create so it appears 4 times

without
having to create tables and altering them by moving margins etc... I
would
like it to have even margins on all sides so I can cut it out to send
as

a
invitation should look like this on the sheet when printed:

HI HI
How are you How are you
Very Well Very Well
Thank You Thank You


HI HI
How are you How are you
Very Well Very Well
Thank You Thank You


But all i type is the HI... one time.

Any Help with this?