Hi Anne!
Thanks for your response.  I'll give that a try.  I also found some blank 
templates for making labels for ms word and I might give one of those a try as 
well.  Cards are just fancier labels from my standpoint.

thanks again for your help.
Jim

> On Jun 3, 2015, at 4:54 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jim,
> 
> I haven’t made business cards using a Pages template, but I have used other 
> templates in Pages. Here are a few tips.
> VO-Shift-h will tell you the size of an item. If an item has width but no 
> height, then it’s a line.
> In the Formatter, select the Arrange button and in the scroll area, set a 
> hotspot on the X value and another on the Y. You can then check the position 
> of any item on the page.
> To edit the placeholder text, interact until you hear “Interact with edit 
> text”, then press Return followed by Cmd-z. This will allow you to use just 
> the arrow keys to navigate and highlight each piece of placeholder text in 
> turn. If you don’t press Return followed by Cmd-z, you’ll hear a woosh sound 
> and the text box will move.
> I haven’t figured out how to tell Pages to make all the cards the same. It 
> looks as though you have to copy and paste all the information.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
>> On 2 Jun 2015, at 21:57, Jim Gatteys <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all!
>> I can't remember if I asked this here before but if so, sorry.  I need to do 
>> some business cards not many but enough that I'd like to make my own and not 
>> have to have them printed.  Then I could do special offer cards and the like.
>> Has anyone used any of the business card templates in pages?  I have not 
>> figured out how to use the templates with any degree of success.  I have 
>> picked a page with 10 cards.  If I actually manage to get one done do Ijust 
>> copy and paste it to the other 9 spots?
>> Thanks for any info.
>> Jim
>> 
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