Posted December 27, by rossendryv in OpenOffice.

Using the right tools can save you time and money. Templates make life easier when you use them for letters, documents, brochures, etc. The spacing for your label documents has to be extraordinarily precise to make sure that the text is printed exactly where it needs to be. This Howto will help you use Openoffice.

About WorldLabel WorldLabel lets you download free templates in OpenOffice. You can look them up by the number on your Avery label sheet box or read the description. The templates are XML Open Document Format ODF , Public Domain. For US Letter sizes: Visit here For A4 sizes: The first step, of course, is to get the templates onto your computer. Create a directory at C: Repeat the downloading steps for any additional templates you want.

If you take a close look, though, when you click in the template, you can see the table toolbar. Labels and the table formatting toolbar. This means you have all the formatting capabilities that you normally get with a table, including the following:. Formatting labels using the Table window. To see the borders of the table, select the whole table. Then click and hold down on the indicated borders icon in the Tables toolbar, and choose the lower right option for borders on all cells.

Adding visible borders to the labels. The table borders appear.

As you can see there are actually five columns, including the two spacer columns. Labels with visible borders. To take the borders off later, just repeat those steps but choose the upper left option for no borders on any cells.

Table-based label templates are much easier to paste content into. Selecting content to copy. Pasting content into the labels template. Applying the Default style. Applying the correct indent.

You could also update the Default style to be indented. Rather than pasting into each cell individually, you can copy the text once, then paste into every cell. The content will appear in every selected cell. So, to make a multi-page sheet of labels, you essentially just have to select the whole table and paste it onto the next page.

Select the whole table.

The table will appear on the next page. Repeat these steps to add additional pages. Clicking in the next available line, to paste another page. A major feature of OpenOffice. You can add them in the corner, or in the background as a watermark. Inserting a graphic Just click in the cell where you want the graphic. Find the graphic on your computer and select it. A graphic added to a label. A graphic without wrapping. Now you can move the graphic and the text will get out of its way.

If necessary, delete any new carriage returns that were created. A graphic with wrapping. You can add a graphic to the background of each label, too.

Inserting a watermark graphic. Sending the watermark graphic to the background. The watermark graphic in the background of the label. Solveig Haugland has worked as an instructor, course developer, author and technical writer in the high-tech industry for over 15 years. If this article helped you, please THANK the author by sharing. Your participation helps us to help others.

I appreciate your help… Eric,. Yes, I need to do the same thing.

Perhaps Writer needs an extension. It assumes the data is in column A of sheet1. Thanks for the little tutorial! I have successfully printed labels before but this is how it worked for me: Logical solution — change to page size to Letter — did it — results — entire column 2 of 2 drops off the page leaving only 1 of the 2 columns to print.

I really hope OpenOffice. I am finding that once I close and open the same document later lets say the next day or later that same day to print the merged data, it has made all 14 labels of the first page the same thing where as before label 1 — 14 contained exclusive merged data the goal.

I have just bookmarked this at stumbleupon. Hope others find it as interesting as I did. This blog is very interesting and more information to the templets http: In the dialog that appears, you will be able to enter the initial text for the label s and select the label type Avery, etc.

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