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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to
insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground
centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm
-- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The
explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu,
select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Thank you for your instructions. I have got so far and am stuck at the bit
where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the other labels. This label is the very first one, the top left hand one. When I click on copy and go to paste it onto the empty labels, it automatically jumps back to paste on top of the edited label and it appears as the "unwashed" one. What have I dont wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to
copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use
Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set
behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating
images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter to break the lines. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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Ok I could not fathom that bit out sorry. Instead, I have cheated. I
formatted the graphic how I wanted it, saved it as autotext. Then printed out a whole sheet of labels with the graphic. Then opened up a new document and inserted the text I required, then the labels with the graphics printed on them, I insterted them into the printer and voila! I just didn't follow the correct procedure. Thanks for your help. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter to break the lines. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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By default, labels are vertically centered, but I believe that inserting
wrapped graphics maybe messes with this? I would be inclined to apply Space Before as direct formatting (not bothering with modifying Normal for a one-off doc), but I always use line breaks in labels, anyway. -- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter to break the lines. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
That would work
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Ok I could not fathom that bit out sorry. Instead, I have cheated. I formatted the graphic how I wanted it, saved it as autotext. Then printed out a whole sheet of labels with the graphic. Then opened up a new document and inserted the text I required, then the labels with the graphics printed on them, I insterted them into the printer and voila! I just didn't follow the correct procedure. Thanks for your help. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter to break the lines. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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How to center text within graphic in mail merge labels
On reflection I would do this too
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: By default, labels are vertically centered, but I believe that inserting wrapped graphics maybe messes with this? I would be inclined to apply Space Before as direct formatting (not bothering with modifying Normal for a one-off doc), but I always use line breaks in labels, anyway. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Tables use Normal style - Because of the difficulties of combining floating images and text in labels I would be inclined to reformat normal style for this document to include sufficient 'space before' inthe paragraph format of the style to push the text down to where you want it, then use shift+enter to break the lines. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Okay Many thanks Graham! I have now cracked it. I have my angel graphic set behind the text and have my text in front. There is only one problem now, I have centred my text but instead of the text being centred at the top of the label, I want it centred back smack in the middle of my angel graphic. When I press enter, thinking this will move the text down a line or so, the entire thing, text and graphic move down together. How can I just get the text to move down a tad? "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is explained in the link posted earlier. The fact that I chose to use Word Art is really irrelevant. This is just a type of graphic. Once you have the graphic in the first label revert to the procedure shown in that link http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm . A workaround for the problem you are having is described there below the watermark images -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org laceyjo wrote: Thanks for your detailed reply. I have got as far as the bit where I have to copy the edited/washedout image onto the rest of the labels on the page. When I click copy and go to the other labels and select paste, it automatically jumps back to the first label and pastes it on top and it appears as the unwashed image. What have I done wrong? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Paste the clipart into a label, select it and then from the format menu, select Picture and on the Format Picture dialog, go to the Layout tab and select the Behind Text option. You may want to go the the Size tab and uncheck the Lock aspect ratio control so that you can drag the borders of the picture to fill the cell completely. You will need to turn on the Drawing toolbar and click on the Select objects button at the left hand end of the toolbar to be able to select the picture once you had sent it behind the text. You may want to set the Picture to "Washout" using the Picture tab of the Format Picture dialog. Once you have the picture the way that you want, you can copy it to the other labels and you can just enter and align your text on the labels as if the picture was not there. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "laceyjo" wrote in message ... Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I do not fully understand it. The explains shows the procedure for formatting Wordart. I want to insert an angel image from clipart and have the text centered and have the angel image on the background. Is there a step by step way to be shown how to do this please? Many Thanks "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm -- 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. "laceyjo" wrote in message ... I should also have added that I would like the text to be in the foreground centered, and the graphic to be in the background. The graphic is from clipart. "laceyjo" wrote: I am doing a mail merge for labels for Christmas cards. I am trying to insert a graphic but I want the address that I have typed to be centred within the graphic. At the moment, when I do this, the text jumps up to the top of the graphic and if I try and cut/paste it wont work. If I press enter, the entire document moves down. Could someone possibly explain how exactly this can be done please? |
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