CarlP wrote:
OK, so they're not big woes...
Trying to make a single sheet of labels with the same addressee. I know
I can create a label, select a label style or create a new one, type in
an address and select to print an entire sheet (none of this is terribly
intuitive, but I found the options eventually).
What I can't seem to do is go back and edit the structure of the label
after it's created. I'm using a margin-less and gutter-less 30-Up label
(Avery 5354) which I had to create. Then, after selecting this type and
typing in the address, I created it forgetting to select to create an
entire sheet of this address. I could find no way to go back and
correct my mistake without creating a new label sheet. Luckily the
address and my new label type were all selected, so it wasn't hard to
do. Is there a way to go back and edit these options after creating a
label page?
Then, after creating the sheet properly, I found that the margins were
not quite right (OOo put the text to the far left whereas I wanted the
text to be more centered left-to-right and top-to-bottom). I tried to
modify the first label as needed, but those changes didn't get applied
to the rest of the labels on the page. I then tried to select all the
labels on the page and set paragraph indents and spacing above
paragraphs to acheive what I wanted, but this changed the entire label
spacing such that three columns no longer fit within my page size, so
the third label wrapped to the next line. Obviously not what I want.
I'm pretty sure in 1.04 there was a way to make modifications to the
label output such that things like margins within a label and text
attributes (e.g. font size) would be applied to the entire sheet. I'm
interested in how others do this.
What you want to achieve is much simpler if you create your own template
using a table for layout. OO.o uses frames for each label position and,
as you have discovered, this does not make it easy to rectify errors of
layout.
Within a table cell it is very easy to set margins, position etc. using
appropriate styles, which can then be applied to all cells, and it is
also not very hard to modify the table dimensions to achieve the
accuracy you desire.
There is one fly in the ointment however; if you are working in English
dimensions the OO.o accuracy - in the user interface - of only 2 decimal
places can, over a multi-row table, compound any initial error such that
the bottom cells can be unacceptably displaced.
The trick I use is to create the layout using the metric system - a
hundredth of a millimetre is after all a lot smaller than a hundredth of
an inch - and then switch the interface back to English just prior to
saving the template. Internally to OO.o there is no problem with
retaining accuracy: the problem is just within the user interface.
Peter HB
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