On Friday 23 September 2005 18:16, Beth Brown wrote: > I still would like to know how or if I am able to make more than one page > of address labels. I would like to make a master list to copy from and > usually I need more than one page for a mailing. I do not understand how to > use the biblo table for address label purposes. I am mostly self taught on > the use of the computer. Thanks, Beth Brown I tried the groups.google.com, > but didn't see anything that I could use. I am using WindowsXP and > openoffice 1.1
Hi Beth, here's what John King wrote on the subject and what I was refering to with the Google search. I haven't tried label printing with the latest OpenOffice.org 2 Beta yet, but maybe (hopefully) they have fixed this with the new version, so you might give it a try if the following still doesn't work. Kind regards, Severin > 1 Follow the instructions in the help file 'Printing Address > Labels' as far as and including step 4 > > 2 Click on the label document and save it (essential!) > > 3 Click on the Edit File icon on the toolbar. It will lose its > recessing and the label document will be uneditable. > > 4 Click on the Edit File icon again to make it editable. > > 5 Now you can follow steps 5-8 in the 'Printing Address Labels' > help file. Drag and Drop works! > > 6 If the total number of labels will occupy more than one page, > click anywhere on the label document outside of the first label; go to > Format - Section menu, and change the 'Master Label' section to > 'write-protected'. > > 7 Click on Edit - Select All to select the whole document. > > 8 Go to the end of the first page and paste as many pages as > you require. > > 9 Follow steps 9-12 in the 'Printing Address Labels' help file. > > As you have said, there's a lot in the help file and in the procedure > that needs tidying up. In particular, the need to click on the Edit > File icon twice seems unnecessry (this seems to have been fixed in the > openoffice.org643beta), and label printing should automatically add > the requisite number of pages, cutting out steps6-8 above. > > John King --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
