Hi All, I'm trying to print out a label. I opened Writer, went to file, new, label. From there I selected my required label - Avery L7161 - and created a new document. On screen all looked fine. I filled in my labels. Made sure that the default page formatting was at A4. Then I printed out the labels. Unfortunately they are not actually on the labels correctly - they were a little bit up and a little to the right. Am I missing something? Have I neglected to pick some correct formatting setting? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated Anthony. I assume you set A4 in the print dialog on the computer (printer dialog or Writer page settings). You can grab the printable download for this card only, over at Today's Creative Blog, where I contribute, and where you can find a TON of other printables, crafts, recipes and DIY projects. Elegance and Enchantment Mothers Day Printables. Avery offers templates in Microsoft Word for all of their products,. Choose your label design and download the template. Customize to your liking using Microsoft Word, and then print them onto Avery 22807 labels. I printed mine on my Epson XP-830! My M&M's Simple Wedding Favors. Peel your labels from the sheet and adhere them to the front of your circle boxes. Not all printer/driver combinations convey that information to the printer correctly. Is the printer set to assume A4 in the paper tray you used for the labels? (could be a dial/slider on the tray, the paper guides in the tray, or a front panel setting in the printer). Is the label sheet symmetrical? (I've never seen one that isn't, but some may account for printer margins. If asymmetrical, you may need to turn the sheets around.). The Page format was actually set to a USER default rather than A4. This was rectified and the label stopped printing half way across the page! The labels use the strange page size settings for a reason--you should not need to change the page size under Format > Page. Have you checked the label layout settings against your label page? It's entirely possible that the settings supplied with OOo are simply incorrect. Given what you said, you want to look especially at the values for the left and top margins. Look at the values under Format > Page > Page. Even if those are correct for your labels, you can adjust those values to move the printed text relative to the label. It's possible that OOo's printing with your system is not perfectly accurate--at least it wasn't for mine (on Linux); I assume that Windows can have the same problem. Acknak wrote:The labels use the strange page size settings for a reason--you should not need to change the page size under Format > Page. Have you checked the label layout settings against your label page? It's entirely possible that the settings supplied with OOo are simply incorrect. Given what you said, you want to look especially at the values for the left and top margins. Look at the values under Format > Page > Page. Even if those are correct for your labels, you can adjust those values to move the printed text relative to the label. It's possible that OOo's printing with your system is not perfectly accurate--at least it wasn't for mine (on Linux); I assume that Windows can have the same problem. Thanks acknak, I shall give that a try. It may, as you say, just be a case of me having to create the settings myslef. They all seemed to be right, but maybe there is a problem when it comes to OOo talking to the printer. I will come back and post if I manage to solve the problem. Regards Anthony. Thank you so much for checking out my blog! That shape is actually from picmonkey.com. If you go to picmonkey.com and choose the “Design” option, you’ll get a blank canvas. Click the “Overlays” button on the left side of the screen. (It is a picture of a butterfly.) About halfway down the Overlays list, choose “Labels.” The shape is the second one from the left in the second row. Draw it the size you want and make it the color you’d like. Then choose “Save.” It will save as a picture file. Then in Word, go to “Insert” then “Picture” and choose “From File.” Pick the file you just saved from PicMonkey and you can add words on top of it, etc. Hope this helps! Have a wonderful week! Love the tutorial. I’m here from Pinterest. I was wondering about the red shape at the top of the page too (I saw your answer about picmonkey- thanks!) so when I couldn’t find that shape in Word I played around with the “double brackets” shape. I put two on the page making sure they were the same size by getting the first one the size I wanted, then doing a copy/paste so the second was identical, then I just turned the second one onto its side and lined up the corners. It’s not 100% exactly the same as the red one, but it’s pretty close. Once it’s filled in with color it looks great. I think I’ll be adding this trick to my post-it notes when I print on them to make labels so they are cute, easy, CHEAP & practical. So that will make them PERFECT! Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial. I always wondered how people made these. I pinned this. On this ago but now that summer is here I had the time to follow. Question though.when I layer and the. Add text box like instructions say and then group the new layered (no fill shape) disappears so it is the shape with picture and then the text. So the text is on to of the picture. I’m thinking you have to arrange front to back etc but never get that right and no matter how I change it it doesn’t make a difference, any suggestions? Thanks Lorri. Are you referring to the one in picmonkey? Some of the options have changed since I answered the above comments. If you choose the “Design” option at picmonkey.com, you’ll get a blank canvas. Select the overlay as you did before and make it the color you’d like. Then choose “Save.” It will save as a picture file. Then in Word, go to “Insert” then “Picture” and choose “From File.” Pick the file you just saved from picmonkey and you can add words on top of it, etc. If this isn’t what you meant at all, let me know and I’ll try to answer your other question! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! It’s not dumb at all! I’ve done lots of different things. I’ve printed my labels on white card stock and attached them with tape. I have printed on white card stock, laminated them, and then used a velcro dot to attach to something. If you’re wanting to use the labels that come with a sticky back, you can download a template from avery.com, and it will give you guides to show you where you need to put your design for it to print on the labels. (Look at your package of labels; it will have a number on it. Type that number into the search box at avery.com or the site of the company that makes your labels, and the template should come up for you.) I hope this helps! Have a wonderful week! Thank you so much for checking out my blog! That shape is actually from picmonkey.com. If you go to picmonkey.com and choose the “Design” option, you’ll get a blank canvas. Click the “Overlays” button on the left side of the screen. (It is a picture of a butterfly.) About halfway down the Overlays list, choose “Labels.” The shape is the second one from the left in the second row. Draw it the size you want and make it the color you’d like. Then choose “Save.” It will save as a picture file. Then in Word, go to “Insert” then “Picture” and choose “From File.” Pick the file you just saved from PicMonkey and you can add words on top of it, etc. Hope this helps! Have a wonderful week! Thanks so much, Fiona! I apologize for the delay in my reply! It’s hard to know for sure without seeing your computer, but when I’ve had one of my layers disappear before, it has been because I haven’t selected them all. If you’re having trouble getting them all when you click individually, try this: Under the ‘HOME’ tab, way over to the right choose ‘select,’ then ‘select object,’ then using your mouse drag the dashed line around all the objects you want to group. Then ‘group’ them. That’s easier sometimes. Hope this helps! That shape is actually from picmonkey.com. If you go to picmonkey.com and choose the “Design” option, you’ll get a blank canvas. Click the “Overlays” button on the left side of the screen. (It is a picture of a butterfly.) About halfway down the Overlays list, choose “Labels.” The shape is the second one from the left in the second row. Draw it the size you want and make it the color you’d like. Then choose “Save.” It will save as a picture file. Then in Word, go to “Insert” then “Picture” and choose “From File.” Pick the file you just saved from PicMonkey and you can add words on top of it, etc. Hope this helps! That shape is actually from picmonkey.com. If you go to picmonkey.com and choose the “Design” option, you’ll get a blank canvas. Click the “Overlays” button on the left side of the screen. (It is a picture of a butterfly.) About halfway down the Overlays list, choose “Labels.” The shape is the second one from the left in the second row. Draw it the size you want and make it the color you’d like. Then choose “Save.” It will save as a picture file. Then in Word, go to “Insert” then “Picture” and choose “From File.” Pick the file you just saved from PicMonkey and you can add words on top of it, etc. Hope this helps! It’s hard to know exactly without being able to see your computer, but the easiest thing to do would probably be to do a Google image search for “lace background,” choose one you like and save it as a picture, then choose that picture to fill your shape. If you’re set on the lace in the picture you already have, crop it down so just the lace is showing, and then save it as a picture. (If you’re on a Mac, you can just right click and save as picture. If you’r on a PC, you can crop it down in Word, copy and paste it into a PowerPoint file, then right click and save as picture.) If it’s just the lace showing on the file you’ve chosen, it should fill up the whole shape. I hope this helps! Thanks for the reply! Ok so when I did fill in the shape the actual piece of lace shows up just like the picture but so does the white background it was photographed on.I’m trying to get the lace to fill up the whole shape, like a pattern. So what I would need to do, would be to enlarge or ‘zoom in’ on the picture inside the shape I’ve made to fill in the whole shape. Does that make sense? Would that be a more complex issue that only photoshop or something could handle? I’m not sure if I’m making sense lol! But thanks again for this tutorial it’s really awesome! Thank you for this! Actually, I have a cricut but don’t use it all that much. Probably haven’t touched it for a year now. So please don’t feel like you’re missing out on much. Making something in Word and handcutting is so much quicker when making only one or two of something, especially since I only have a couple of cartridges. Not only is the unit expensive, but I can’t find it in me to keep buying more cartridges with only a couple shapes included that I need. It’s quite frustrating. I’d say, save your money and stick with Word!
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