Business card templates

I've read and re-read your post.

You say you are using a new template, but doesn't that mean you have it already? Otherwise what do you have open? How could you switch back to an older template without you choosing it?

Could you please take a deep breath, think about what you are saying and make it clearer for the rest of us?

Thanks,

Peter

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I wanted to move to a nicer card stock so tried to print using Avery template 8869.
Can't remember how / where to change the template.
Tried recreating card in '09 but still stays with old template.

I haven't checked at the Avery site, but the main differences between pre-cut business card stock pages is whether they contain 10 cards (Avery 5371/8371) or 8 cards (Avery 5881).

In the Milano Business card template that I checked, changing from one to the other was done through the following steps:

1. Click the Pages button and choose the second item ( 8 up )
This adds a second page to your document, laid out as 8 up.
2. Copy your card elements and Paste them onto the 8 up layout on page 2.
3. (optional) Click on page 1 in the sidebar. Press delete.
(You will get a warning that this will delete all pages in the same section, something that's dangerous in a Word Processing document. But in a Page Layout document, each page is a separate section.)
4. Save the revised document as a Template. Use the same name if you wish to replace the old template; change the name if you wish to keep the old one as well as the new.

Regards,
Barry

PS: You might find Avery Design Pro a simpler tool to use for your business cards. It a dedicated label/card design and printing application, available for free download from Avery/Dennison. The Mac version requires OS X v10.4 or v10.5. Click the application name to go to Avery's download site.

One vote for Business Card Composer, the program already has a great choice of business card designs and tools to create your own.

One vote against *Business Card Composer* which has mediocre if not downright tacky designs.

I know there is a market for non-designer DIY and this probably is the best for that, but it suffers from the more must be better mentality. Also avoid the +"If you don't have a vision of what it should look like, do a collage!"+

Apple on the other hand has gone a bit too far in the opposite direction of minimalism and has made less is dull. I assume Apple though left room for the user to add more to the mix.

I offer a little advice:

1. Open your eyes. The world is full of good and bad design, especially with ephemera like brochures, fliers and business cards. The average person is being inundated with hundreds if not thousands of these in a typical year. Collect the ones you like and pull them apart for what you like about them.

2. Get over how "hard" this is. They are only rectangles for heavens sake, and rectangles with not much on them.

3. Remember Goldilocks and the 3 bears. Learn to judge what is too much and too little and discover what is "just right".

4. Do use a designer, they have trained for this and it is the difference between karaoke and real music.

Peter