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Easy way to generate circular labels?
I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter).
I have created templates for rectangular labels using tables. Is there a comparable way to create a table with round cells os that the text will flow inside the 2.5" circles? I have Word 2007. |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter). I have created templates for rectangular labels using tables. Is there a comparable way to create a table with round cells os that the text will flow inside the 2.5" circles? I have Word 2007. No version of Word can flow text along any path except straight lines unless you use WordArt. You can, of course, place a separate WordArt object into each cell of a regular rectangular table. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:33 -0400, "Jay Freedman"
wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter). I have created templates for rectangular labels using tables. Is there a comparable way to create a table with round cells os that the text will flow inside the 2.5" circles? I have Word 2007. No version of Word can flow text along any path except straight lines unless you use WordArt. You can, of course, place a separate WordArt object into each cell of a regular rectangular table. I don't want to flow the text *around* the labels. I want it to *fill* the labels. Each label is a circle. I want to be able to enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
Sesquipedalian Sam wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:26:33 -0400, "Jay Freedman" wrote: Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter). I have created templates for rectangular labels using tables. Is there a comparable way to create a table with round cells os that the text will flow inside the 2.5" circles? I have Word 2007. No version of Word can flow text along any path except straight lines unless you use WordArt. You can, of course, place a separate WordArt object into each cell of a regular rectangular table. I don't want to flow the text *around* the labels. I want it to *fill* the labels. Each label is a circle. I want to be able to enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. You could insert a circle in each cell from the Drawing Toolbar, but that still just gives you a rectangle inside the circle in which to type text. That's what you'll get if you download Avery's "template" (actually a .doc, not a .dot) from http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Tem...002118140aRCRD. If you want the outline of the text area to be circular, you have to fiddle with placing crescent-shaped drawing objects on either side of the text and setting them to tight wrapping -- you can see something similar with triangles by downloading http://jay-freedman.info/triangle_text.doc. This isn't what I'd call an "easy way". -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
Have you tried generating a page of Avery 5294 labels? Mailings ribbon
create group labels options; select the 5294 product number. Back in the envelopes and labels dialog, click _new document_. You'll get a page of empty labels ready for our input. If you've already done this, what didn't work? PamC Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter). [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] you use WordArt. You can, of course, place a separate WordArt object into each cell of a regular rectangular table. I don't want to flow the text *around* the labels. I want it to *fill* the labels. Each label is a circle. I want to be able to enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
That would give you a page of rectangular labels?
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org PamC via OfficeKB.com wrote: Have you tried generating a page of Avery 5294 labels? Mailings ribbon create group labels options; select the 5294 product number. Back in the envelopes and labels dialog, click _new document_. You'll get a page of empty labels ready for our input. If you've already done this, what didn't work? PamC Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: I have a package of round labels (Avery 5294, 2.5" diameter). [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] you use WordArt. You can, of course, place a separate WordArt object into each cell of a regular rectangular table. I don't want to flow the text *around* the labels. I want it to *fill* the labels. Each label is a circle. I want to be able to enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
The 5294 labels are described as round, but of course the table cells
generated are square (or so they seem). I would guess that by adjusting the cell margins, the text could be kept inside the diameter--I picture the typing area as a square circumscribed by a circle. But that's just a guess, because I don't have the labels--which is why I asked what the problems might were if the OP had already tried it. Graham Mayor wrote: That would give you a page of rectangular labels? Have you tried generating a page of Avery 5294 labels? Mailings ribbon create group labels options; select the 5294 product [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...neral/200904/1 |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:16:00 GMT, "PamC via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe
wrote: The 5294 labels are described as round, but of course the table cells generated are square (or so they seem). I would guess that by adjusting the cell margins, the text could be kept inside the diameter--I picture the typing area as a square circumscribed by a circle. But that's just a guess, because I don't have the labels--which is why I asked what the problems might were if the OP had already tried it. Graham Mayor wrote: That would give you a page of rectangular labels? Have you tried generating a page of Avery 5294 labels? Mailings ribbon create group labels options; select the 5294 product [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. I tried to download that template. It caused IE, and then Word, to hang. I had to force them. Happened twice. I've had lots of problems with Avery templates in the past, so I usually roll my own. My guess is that you are correct that they simply fit a square inside the circle. It looks like Word really can't do this task very well. I'll use a graphics or DTP program until I get my label printer. ;-) |
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Easy way to generate circular labels?
It's already in Word. Mailings ribbon labels options. Choose product
number 5294 (described as high visibility round labels), then click OK. Back in the envelopes and labels dialog, click New document. You'll get a Word page set up in the template. PamC Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: The 5294 labels are described as round, but of course the table cells generated are square (or so they seem). I would guess that by adjusting the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] enter text inside each circle and have it break so that the text prints only on the labels. I tried to download that template. It caused IE, and then Word, to hang. I had to force them. Happened twice. I've had lots of problems with Avery templates in the past, so I usually roll my own. My guess is that you are correct that they simply fit a square inside the circle. It looks like Word really can't do this task very well. I'll use a graphics or DTP program until I get my label printer. ;-) -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...neral/200904/1 |
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