I need to make labels for an art exhibit. Each one needs to have a different text. I used to do this by choosing "Labels" in word. Now it seems Word and Pages both want me to set up a Mailmerge program. When I ask Google how to do this it gives me 23 pages of instructions but they do not seem to reflect the options in my version of Word (2011). I have an iMac with Yosemite 10.10.1 What should I do? Karen
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), IOS 10.10.1
Is this just a names/date thing? Or more?
How hard can it be… text in a rectangle?
Can you post a sample of what you want to do, command shift 4 gets a screen snap saved to your desktop, and you post by clicking on the camera here.
Peter
Sent an email to Peter with an attachment showing how it looked when I created labels in word and how it was looking when I tried to create rectangles. Not sure how to forward that image to larger group.
"Thank you for answering my question. I am emailing because the screen shot doesn’t seem to be working. I had a show two years ago and I went into Word and selected Labels and told the program which Avery label stock I was using and it printed them all up in format such that all I had to do was print them out on label stock. Easy, fast.
Now when I select Labels, it will only print one label many times (like business cards). Anything else, it wants to do mail merge. However, the data is not in an address book, so I cannot figure how to format the data or where in Word to format it to merge. I am using Safari, and I have ad block loaded on it which they want me to disable, which I am also not finding easy.
I have been trying to eye the text and print into rectangles as per page two of attachment (I hope), which was your “how hard can it be” question, but it can be hard. Because the measurements have to be exact in order to print on the label stock correctly. If necessary that is what I will have to do. But is seems crazy because people print name tags all the time, and because I have spent hours on this question that would have far better been spent painting more pictures.
“Chatted” with Avery Co and they don’t have any suggestions other than downloading their template software which flagged my virus protect system to delete it. Their phone number for customer service is a dud. I understand the problem is acquiring another template, but easy to say. The instructions for setting up mail merge are very unclear and experimentation yields failure.
This is why I sent the problem out to the wider world. Thank you for your interest. Karen"
The only Apple software I know that is configured "out of the box" to print Avery labels is Contacts. One solution to your immediate problem, without going through the nightmare of setting up a mail merge in Pages, might be to create a custom group in Contacts and then input up your exhibition labels into the various fields. It depends a bit on what information you want the labels to contain, but here's an example:
I've used First Name for the title of the artwork, the first line of Home Address for the medium and the second line of the Home Address for the artist.
Then Print, set the style to Mailing Labels, click the Layout button and choose your Avery label size.
I printed my three samples to PDF and they came out like this:
Not sure if it'll work for you, but thought it might be worth suggesting.
H
You haven't said what version of Pages or whether you are doing this on your Mac or your iPad.
1. Go to Avery's website and download the Word template for the particular Label.
2. Open that in Pages
3. Menu > View > Ruler/Layout/Invisibles
4. There will be a Textbox for each label on the sheet
5. Click in one of the Textboxes and type some sample text.
6. Style it to the font, size bolding etc that you want. Adjust the Text inset (the amount of white space inside the box away from the edge and the left and right margins. Adjust the line spacing and any before/after paragraph spacing.
7. Save that as a Paragraph Style called say "Labels".
8. Select the text and make it Placeholder text.
9. Copy and Paste that into each Label Textbox
10. Save that as a Template
Now when you open it, all you have to do is click in each sample placeholder text and it is all selected, so you type the replacement text or paste new Text to match style. Don't hit the spacebar multiple times to position text, use Tabs on the ruler.
Peter
Thank you. I printed off your instructions and will get Contacts and get to work. Here's hoping! KL
How can I make labels for an art exhibit
