business cards using Avery 8869

[ed t.]

I cannot find how to make business cards in MS Word 2007. I am using Avery
8869 clean edge business card paper.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Nothing has really changed and there is no need to use VBA to do this. From
the Mailings tab of the Ribbon, click on Labels in the Create Chunk of the
Ribbon and on the Labels tab of the Envelopes and Labels dialog that
appears, click the Options button and then from the Label vendors pulldown
in the Label Information section of the Label Options dialog, select Avery
US Letter and then scroll down through the Product number list and selecct
the 8869 item, then click on OK and then click the New Document button.
This will give you a new document in which is set up a table with cells to
match those of the label feed stock. Set up the business card that you want
to produce in the first label on the sheet and then copy and paste it to the
other labels.

You might also want to take a look at the article "Graphics on Labels" on
fellow MVP Graham Mayor's website at:

http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Jay Freedman]

I cannot find how to make business cards in MS Word 2007. I am using Avery
8869 clean edge business card paper.

Word treats business cards as a special case of labels.

On the Mailings tab, in the Create group, click the Labels button. In
the Labels dialog, click the Options button. Select (if not already
selected) "Page printers" and the vendor "Avery US Letter". Then
select 8869 in the product number list, and click OK.

Click the New Document button. This creates a document containing a
table whose cells are sized and positioned to match the cards on the
paper. If you can't see the cells at first, go to the Table Tools >
Layout tab and click the View Gridlines button at the far left.

After you create the design you want in the first cell, copy that cell
to the clipboard; then select the entire table and paste, to repeat it
in all the other cells. Save the document, and print as many copies as
you want.

For another method that uses the mail merge feature, see
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm. Although it was written
for Word 2003, I believe it still works in Word 2007.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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