Hi Stuart,
You should reply to the other subjects you have been given help on lately and
let the list know what was suggestions solved your questions.
Then when people search the list for answers we have already given, they can
see what suggestions solved the problem.
Doing this also saves having to answer the same questions over and over.
To answer your question "Can it be done in Pages?”, yes it can.
You have Two Options: The Address Book on your Mac or Pages’09.
Address Book is probably the easiest.
A: Using Address Book:
1. In Address Book, create a new group.
Go to File - New Group. Give the new group a name.
2. Drag all the contacts you want into the Group
3. HIGHLIGHT all of the addresses in the group which you wish to generate
labels for by holding down the SHIFT key.
4. Go to File - Select All.
5. File - Print. Once the print window opens, click on the expand arrow to
expand your print choices:
6. Check out the Label and Layout choices...Style should be "Mailing Labels";
Use what every Avery Lable Layout you wish (eg. Avery Standard 5161) as the
label layout.
7. Make sure your Avery label sheet is in the printer manual tray.
Finally, hit "Print”.
B: Using Pages’09:
Despite the lack of built-in templates for labels, users can take advantage of
official templates available on the internet to create their own custom labels.
Many companies such as Avery provide these templates for download in the ".doc"
format for compatibility with Word, which also can be read by Pages.
Here's how users can incorporate the templates for use in Pages:
Download and open the template Go to Avery's website and find the template for
the labels being used (Blank templates are preferred):
<http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-&-Software/Templates>. Open the
layout in Pages after it's downloaded.
Remove graphical items Select and remove all graphics items if present (even
subtle "outline" graphics), which may be incorrectly placed on multiple pages.
To do this, select one graphic and press command-A to select all, then press
delete.
If multiple table cells appear when the graphic is initially selected, then
users have not selected a graphic object and should try again.
Do not delete the table, as this contains all the dimension information for the
template.
Display the hidden table There will be a hidden table behind the graphics that
should remain when they're deleted, which contains the appropriate dimensions
for the desired labels. To display this table's boundaries, click somewhere on
the first page and the table should highlight with resizing boxes around its
outline.
Then click again to select one cell and press command-A to select all table
cells.
With this done, open the inspector and under the "Table" section, in the "Cell
Borders" area select a border style for the table from the drop-down menu.
With this done the whole table should appear.
Set bottom margin (if applicable) If the table goes to multiple pages, increase
the BOTTOM margin of the page until the table fits on one page.
Do not change the top margin as this will offset the labels.
With the labels all on one page, users can add graphics and text as desired.
Before printing the labels, however, users will want to remove the borders
added upon displaying the hidden table, so they don’t get printed to the labels.
To do this, click outside of the table to ensure the cursor is not in "text
entry" mode in the table.
Then click the table and select a single cell and press command-A to highlight
them all.
Then using the inspector, set the border style to "None”.
This process should work for most Avery templates in the ".doc" format.
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt"
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.7.2 Lion
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
On 22/10/2011, at 7:42 AM, Stuart Breden wrote:
> Have been trying to do address labels in Pages but can't find how to.
>
> Can it be done in Pages?
>
> Stuart Breden
> PO Box 132
> Kalamunda WA 6926
> Ph: (08) 9257 1577
> Mbl: 0417 053 266
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