Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
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.
Thanks, Peter. So am I to understand there's no going back once a label document has been created (e.g. to select to print an entire sheet of labels)? Others? I notice there is a Frames style option - might there be a way to use that for labels in my case? Finally, was there a big change in how OOo handles labels from v.1 to v.2?
As I said in my original post, under OOo 1.0.4 (I think that was it) I could go back and tell OOo whether or not to print one label or a sheet of labels, and there was a way to apply paragraph styles to a sheet of labels without creating a table layout approach for each type of label you have, applying the address to the layout, then modifying the table cells with styles.
I think the approach was to choose a label template, type in the address, then OOo would output a single page doc with the address in the upper left cell. Then when you went to print, you had the option to print a single label or a sheet. Paragraph attributes applied to the single label on the document would then be applied to each label cell. That was easy to figure out and simple to use (I'm admittedly not a fan of the OOo stylesheet approach because I don't use any single style frequently, and my list of styles seems like it would get cumbersome quickly.)
The M$ approach to the same problem would be to type the address in a .doc, then select the envelope/label tool, select Labels and label style, choose whether or not to include a default return address, then check the box for single label or sheet of labels. It'll let you select WHICH lable on a sheet to print to, and it'll even grab the address portion of a letter and do this - with remarkable accuracy. Applying paragraph attributes wasn't easy, but... I'm no Word/Office/M$ fan, but that approach was VERY user friendly and speedy for certain tasks.
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