To group elements together, select the elements you’d like to group, then right click while they are all selected and choose GROUPING, GROUP. You’ve designed your label using text boxes and elements – and you need to adjust one cell, one row, one column or all of the labels up, down, right or left.Įach element can be moved individually or you can group all elements of the label together and moved them at one time. You will see a slight adjustment to the right. Place your cursor in front of what you want to move over, manually change your font size to 2 or 4 and hit the space bar. You can also use this to move your text slightly to the right. You will see a slight adjustment downward. Go to your font size box and manually enter a 2 or 4. To adjust the contents of your label cell downward, put your cursor in front of the first letter or symbol. To adjust the contents of you cell upward, put your cursor after the very last letter or punctuation mark on your label, go to the font size box and manually type in 2 or 4. You can adjust the content of the label cell up or down by inserting a spacing line with a font size of 2 or 4. You’ve designed your label using simple text typed straight into the label cell – and you need to adjust one cell, one row, one column or all of the labels up, down, right or left. It can also affect your labels from left to right – lining up on the left and being slightly off by the time they get to the right. This fraction of an inch may not seem like much, but it can throw your label template off by the time you get to the last half of the page. When this happens, Microsoft Word rounds the gutter to. However, some labels are more detailed, having gutters or margins that end in numbers such as. 25 is normally quite easy and the template works very well. PLEASE NOTE: Creating templates in Microsoft Word for labels that have a clean size, margin or gutter, such as the labels that have measurements ending in 1.5 or. BEFORE YOU PRINT ON YOUR LABEL SHEETS, print on white paper – hold the paper up to your label sheet against a bright light and see how it is aligning.You can also design your label by typing directly in the label cell (common if it’s a simple text label). It should paste right in the cell where you need it to.
Click your cursor in the box and hit CRTL +V to paste. Then move to the label cell where you want to paste it. When using a text box, you can right click and then click on properties (Word 2010, click on Format Shape) – you can turn the border off and the fill off – this way there is no box around the object and the background of the textbox is transparent – therefore not interfering with the design of you label. When you get one text box / label cell aligned just right, you can select the contents of the cell by running your cursor over the left side of the cell until you see a black arrow, when you see the black arrow, hit CTRL + C. If you are not familiar with the drawing toolbar, you can do a google or yahoo search on “how to use the drawing toolbar in Microsoft Word” and you should get plenty of tips. This toolbar will allow you to make text boxes, curved text, place an image or logo, draw shapes, etc….and by using the drawing toolbar, you have the ability to move your label elements around freely when it comes time to adjust for printing. NOTE (Word 2007 and earlier): We suggest using the Microsoft DRAWING TOOLBAR to design your labels. Once you have one label set, you can copy and paste into the remaining label cells. The gray lines are template markings only and will not print. Be sure to allow for rounding if your label is oval or round. Design your label within the gray area set for each label.Even if you are designing an oval or a round label, Microsoft Word will only show you a gray rectangle as your template marking. If you do not see gray gridlines, choose the TABLE tab (in Word 2010, LAYOUT) and then click on SHOW GRIDLINES (Word 2010, VIEW GRIDLINES). Once completed, hit okay, okay again and new document - you should now see gray rectangle gridlines, this is your template.Name the label and using a ruler, input in decimal form the measurements needed to create your label template.A box titled "label options" will pop up. Under the label tab, go to the bottom right corner and click on the current label selected to change it.(in Word 2010, open a new document, go to mailings, then labels) Open a new document, choose tools, letters and mailings, labels and envelopes.