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Seting up labels
Hi everyone:
I am using Word 2000, and would appreciate any help you can give. My labels are Avery #5267. When I go to ToolsEnvelopes and labelsLabels I can find Avery #5267 under Options. I then tell it to create a new document with a full page of the same label. So far so good. The new document appears and the labels are correctly shown, with the grayed out border lines. The problem is when I go to enter my data. If I enter my data in label A1, when I finish I hit Tab to jump to the next label. However, the curser doesn't jump to the next label, but stops in the dead (non-printable) space between the labels. What am I doing wrong? Surely I don't have to hit Tab twice every time I want to jump to the next label. Thanks. You guys are always very helpful. -- Jim |
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Hi, Jim. Don't make the common mistake of typing your addresses directly
into labels anyway. Type them into a Word table or Excel workbook. Then, you can create labels, letters, or whatever else you may want by performing a mail merge. Here's some more information for you: http://www.officearticles.com/word/m...osoft_word.htm ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Jim" wrote in message ... Hi everyone: I am using Word 2000, and would appreciate any help you can give. My labels are Avery #5267. When I go to ToolsEnvelopes and labelsLabels I can find Avery #5267 under Options. I then tell it to create a new document with a full page of the same label. So far so good. The new document appears and the labels are correctly shown, with the grayed out border lines. The problem is when I go to enter my data. If I enter my data in label A1, when I finish I hit Tab to jump to the next label. However, the curser doesn't jump to the next label, but stops in the dead (non-printable) space between the labels. What am I doing wrong? Surely I don't have to hit Tab twice every time I want to jump to the next label. Thanks. You guys are always very helpful. -- Jim |
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:11:05 -0700, Jim
wrote: Hi everyone: I am using Word 2000, and would appreciate any help you can give. My labels are Avery #5267. When I go to ToolsEnvelopes and labelsLabels I can find Avery #5267 under Options. I then tell it to create a new document with a full page of the same label. So far so good. The new document appears and the labels are correctly shown, with the grayed out border lines. The problem is when I go to enter my data. If I enter my data in label A1, when I finish I hit Tab to jump to the next label. However, the curser doesn't jump to the next label, but stops in the dead (non-printable) space between the labels. What am I doing wrong? Surely I don't have to hit Tab twice every time I want to jump to the next label. Thanks. You guys are always very helpful. Sorry, but yes, you *do* have to hit Tab twice. The document you get from the label dialog is just an ordinary document containing an ordinary table. The table is formatted so the cells match the size and position of the labels on the paper. Because the labels don't touch at the sides but have a space between them, the table has a column of narrow cells between the columns of labels. Because this is still an ordinary table, tabbing moves the cursor *one* cell at a time. It has no way to know that the narrow column represents non-printable space -- it's just another cell. Either tab through it or use the mouse. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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And note that not all label definitions are set up this way. Some have this
column of "gutter" cells; others use paragraph indents to create the space between labels, cards, etc. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:11:05 -0700, Jim wrote: Hi everyone: I am using Word 2000, and would appreciate any help you can give. My labels are Avery #5267. When I go to ToolsEnvelopes and labelsLabels I can find Avery #5267 under Options. I then tell it to create a new document with a full page of the same label. So far so good. The new document appears and the labels are correctly shown, with the grayed out border lines. The problem is when I go to enter my data. If I enter my data in label A1, when I finish I hit Tab to jump to the next label. However, the curser doesn't jump to the next label, but stops in the dead (non-printable) space between the labels. What am I doing wrong? Surely I don't have to hit Tab twice every time I want to jump to the next label. Thanks. You guys are always very helpful. Sorry, but yes, you *do* have to hit Tab twice. The document you get from the label dialog is just an ordinary document containing an ordinary table. The table is formatted so the cells match the size and position of the labels on the paper. Because the labels don't touch at the sides but have a space between them, the table has a column of narrow cells between the columns of labels. Because this is still an ordinary table, tabbing moves the cursor *one* cell at a time. It has no way to know that the narrow column represents non-printable space -- it's just another cell. Either tab through it or use the mouse. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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