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[rmartin]

Oh man, I've spent months learning elements, I really don't want to have to learn word, but I have a project I need to do.

I bought some AVERY clean edge business cards. They are tear away cards in sheets which go in your printer. They use a template in word to create the proper sizing for printing.

I made an image in elements, and I want to transfer it to the Word program which will then print as card sized. I can't seem to get the size right! Or maybe I have the resolution to high. I'm having a hard time sizing it in Word because I don't know that program at all.

Anybody use Word?

The file size for the print program is supposed to be 3.5 x 2 ; I made the resolution 300 for the clairity, but i think that makes the image to large.

I went to a local print shop, but they required one thousand copies as a minimum. That's rediculous. I don't know what to do.

If anyone done this before, please help

thanks
Rmartin

[AngelicKim]

R, when you are doing the card in Word, when you insert the image you should get an outline around the image that should have the little boxes in the corners and such to drag to resize just like in Elements. If you don't get this click on the image and that should put the resize box around it. See if that works.

[Chuck S.]

Rmartin:

One solution is to paste the photo into Word, then right click on the photo in Word and go to Format Picture. Select the Size tab and set the length or width to what's desired (assuming you've already sized the original photo to the right proportions.

Then if you're using Avery stock, you should also have your document set up to print Avery labels. In Word 2003, the path is Tools>Letters & Mailings>Envelopes and Labels>Labels; select the correct number Avery label and then New Document. The template will appear before your eyes, complete with the picture in every block.

Hope that helps.

Chuck

[rmartin]

Thanks form the quick replies.

I started by opening Word and the tools>labels>template

that gives me the 10 box template I'm looking for in word

When I insert picture, I don't give the bounding box all around it, I'm only able to grab one corner and one side. I think it's because my image is too big. I only see a corner of it in the box. Also, the indent tab seems to keep me from getting the picture centered, I haven't been able to figure out how to move the image around like you can do in Elements. Also, my image is only showing in one box and not all ten.

If I understand Chuck right, you're saying I should edit/resize the picture in Word BEFORE I open the Avery program? I'll try that

[Chuck S.]

If I understand Chuck right, you're saying I should edit/resize the
picture in Word BEFORE I open the Avery program?

For sure! Otherwise, you'll get a bunch of labels with only part of the photo in them.

Chuck

[TonyW]

It does get a bit tricky with large images - I've made quite a lot of business cards in Elements/Word and I think I used 3.5x2.5 at 150 resolution. You can select all>copy in Elements then paste into a Word blank document - scale to 3.5x2.5 in Word, open a Word business card template and copy and paste into the cells.

Maybe an easier way but that worked well for me - trying to scale the image directly in the template didn't seem to want to work I recall.

If you get stuck I'll try and repeat what I did - haven't made a new one for a while.

Tony

PS Chuck has it absolutely right :D I was thinking while he was typing.

[rmartin]

OoOooooo! By George I think I'm getting it

I'll probably loose it tomorrow, but I was able to resize the image under, ah, somewhere under the Format tab. It gave me three little tab options and one was resize. I still had a margin issue, but worked it, and then duplicated the same thing in the second box. Had to go through the whole process of opening my image and resizing. At that point, I tried a sample print with just those two with the sample form they send with the heavy stock paper cards, and guess what, it printed all the boxes. Huh!

I'm going to stop my trial runs for now, then tomorrow I'm going to get my image just right, and go for broke with a real print.

Thanks for talking me through it!

R.martin

[AngelicKim]

R, glad you were able to get it to resize Chucks way. It has been awhile since I have done it and forgot about his way.

Tony, like the holiday avatar.

[Chuck S.]

R. Martin:

Your method will work, although it's a bit more labor-intensive than resizing a single image on a blank document, then applying the labels routine to it and clicking on New Document. It's remarkably fast that way. I didn't remember how to do it and it's not particularly intuitive, but I slogged through it in order to answer your question.

Or, if you like having the blank template with all the boxes in front of you, you can resize the picture once on another page, copy it using Ctrl-C, then paste it into each box in the template using successive Ctrl-V keystrokes. Also very fast and yields the same result.

Chuck

[baderms]

As an alternative to Word, Avery has free software you can download and install at http://www.avery.com/us/Main?action=software.AverySoftwareDetail&catalogcode=WEB01&softwarecode=3200

[AngelicKim]

Mark, thanks for the link. I am printing labels this afternoon for Christmas cards and I have an old version of Word that sometimes freezes up when I do lables and envelopes and stuff like that, just the extras. It works fine for for a plain document.

Thanks again. It is downloading as I type.

[rmartin]

Thanks Mark!

I had tried to download a program they have for Word, but it kept telling me I didn't have Word. And I'm like, word, I'm looking at it right here. I sometimes street talk to my computer.

I didn't see the program you mentioned while there the first time, so thanks for posting the link. Now it's been downloaded and I'm off to try it out. Wish me ink

[Chuck S.]

Rmartin: Any luck creating a page of labels using Word in the several ways we discussed?

Chuck

[rmartin]

Yes I did. I created a text box and then added my image to it. I was able to resize the image under Wordart tab which gave me a set of three tabs one of which was resize. I was going to print them that way, until I saw the link to the Avery free download. It's a nice little program. If you're familar with Elements, it's easy to pick up what's the what. One option they have which is nice is once you choose the template you are printing, there's a size to box icon. One click and it sizes your image to the print size. I'm a business card printing fool now. I can print as few as 10 at a time and change it anytime I want. My local printer required a 1,000 card minimum. Ha!