Carl, my last response may have seemed a little brusque - that was not my intent - so could we try again? My remarks suggesting impatience were with the program, not your question.
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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?
When you use the File > New > Labels menu you are offered the choice - via the Options tab - of producing a single label, or an entire page. The 'Entire page' option results in a page of identical labels, all in frames and this document can obviously be saved and/or edited as you see fit. The 'Single label' option results in a single frame, positioned in the page appropriately for the row and column choice you make: there is no automated method of moving that frame to another label position post the creation event. I can't say whether there were any changes between OO.o 1.1.x and 2.0.x because, as I said in my previous post, I won't hurt my head with an irrational, unnecessarily complicated methodology and therefore I have never used the label creation routines (except to research answers like this). Half an hour creating a set of table-based templates for a lifetime of use seems a fair trade-off to me:-)
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.
See above: you could specify a single label, or a sheet full, but you can only ever print in units of a page, so there is no going back except by deleting the contents of all the unwanted label frames from a 'page-full' selection! I hope that makes sense. [cut] Peter HB --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
