How can I design business cards w/ Micro Office ?

New to Micro. Office setup . Trying to design business cards for my tattoo
company that i am trying to start. How do i go about doing so ? I love
suggestions & coaching . I am at

Curly, this particular section is for Access database designers. If you look
to the left, you will see a list of discussion groups. Your question would
probably fit better in the "Word" group.

"curly" wrote:

New to Micro. Office setup . Trying to design business cards for my tattoo
company that i am trying to start. How do i go about doing so ? I love
suggestions & coaching . I am at

You can do it with Word but word is a really poor tool for that particular
task. It has a wizard that will generate a page full of business cards but
there is no way that I have seen to modify the design except by changing
each individual card??? I prefer Publisher if you have it. That is what I
use and I really like it. It is quite flexible and comes with a lot of good
basic designs. If you don't have Publisher, buy yourself a cheap out of the
box solution ( $30) at Staples or CompUSA.

One hint. Print the first page of labels on plain paper. Hold the plain
paper up to a strong light behind a page of your label stock to make sure
that the labels align properly within any graphic elements of the label
stock.

"curly" wrote in message
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New to Micro. Office setup . Trying to design business cards for my tattoo
company that i am trying to start. How do i go about doing so ? I love
suggestions & coaching . I am at

Thanks, Pat. I've been using Word because I always have, and Publisher
didn't exist when I first started using Office (is anyone else from the
Windows 3.0 era?). But now I need to spend several hours exploring
Publisher, and seeing what else I've been forcing Word to do that I could do
quicker and easier in Publisher.

"Pat Hartman(MVP)" wrote:

You can do it with Word but word is a really poor tool for that particular
task. It has a wizard that will generate a page full of business cards but
there is no way that I have seen to modify the design except by changing
each individual card??? I prefer Publisher if you have it. That is what I
use and I really like it. It is quite flexible and comes with a lot of good
basic designs. If you don't have Publisher, buy yourself a cheap out of the
box solution ( $30) at Staples or CompUSA.

One hint. Print the first page of labels on plain paper. Hold the plain
paper up to a strong light behind a page of your label stock to make sure
that the labels align properly within any graphic elements of the label
stock.

"curly" wrote in message
...
New to Micro. Office setup . Trying to design business cards for my tattoo
company that i am trying to start. How do i go about doing so ? I love
suggestions & coaching . I am at

Since we're getting a bit off-topic here I'll just add that when I needed to
create business cards in Word I ignored the wizard and the templates that
came with the card. Instead I created a 2 x 5 table, and used custom Styles
to format and position the text in one of the cells, then I added the
graphics in front of the text (or behind, but not wrapped or inline) with
the anchor locked to the paragraph mark below the cell. Once that was done
I copied and pasted into the other cells. I don't remember if I needed to
lock the anchors for all of the graphics individually.
Once the layout was complete the client wanted some changes, which I
accomplished by modifying the Styles. Since the graphics were anchored
outside of the table I could select all of them at once and nudge them with
Ctrl + the arrow keys.
Nothing against Publisher. It may well be far superior for business cards.
However, Word is quite servicable for the project. Once cards have been
designed, a template based on the layout can speed future designs.
Unfortunately, the best features of Word (such as Styles) are buried behind
layers of automation and misguided wizards. Word would be a much better
program if MS didn't assume that its users are incapable of understanding or
using the program.

"mnature" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Pat. I've been using Word because I always have, and Publisher
didn't exist when I first started using Office (is anyone else from the
Windows 3.0 era?). But now I need to spend several hours exploring
Publisher, and seeing what else I've been forcing Word to do that I could
do
quicker and easier in Publisher.

"Pat Hartman(MVP)" wrote:

You can do it with Word but word is a really poor tool for that
particular
task. It has a wizard that will generate a page full of business cards
but
there is no way that I have seen to modify the design except by changing
each individual card??? I prefer Publisher if you have it. That is what
I
use and I really like it. It is quite flexible and comes with a lot of
good
basic designs. If you don't have Publisher, buy yourself a cheap out of
the
box solution ( $30) at Staples or CompUSA.

One hint. Print the first page of labels on plain paper. Hold the plain
paper up to a strong light behind a page of your label stock to make sure
that the labels align properly within any graphic elements of the label
stock.

"curly" wrote in message
...
New to Micro. Office setup . Trying to design business cards for my
tattoo
company that i am trying to start. How do i go about doing so ? I love
suggestions & coaching . I am at

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:19:30 -0800, mnature
wrote:

Publisher
didn't exist when I first started using Office (is anyone else from the
Windows 3.0 era?).

hey youngster... have some respect for your elders here! vbg

Yep. Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordstar before that too... not to mention
mainframes running TECO and that stunning advance, LaTEX.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

"BruceM" wrote:

Word would be a much better program if MS didn't assume that its users are
incapable of understanding or using the program.

I agree. Using Word is like using a Macintosh. If you can't do it easily,
then you probably shouldn't even want to do it. I have to admit, though, at
least Apple didn't invent the Office Assistant (which I always kill as I'm
loading Office). Assistant was definitely a critical mass of "cute."

And you used gopher to surf the web (in ASCII, of course) . . .

My first modem was 128 BYTES per second, if I remember correctly. They do
say that memory is the second thing to go . . .

"John Vinson" wrote:

hey youngster... have some respect for your elders here! vbg

Yep. Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordstar before that too... not to mention
mainframes running TECO and that stunning advance, LaTEX.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:23 -0800, mnature
wrote:

And you used gopher to surf the web (in ASCII, of course) . . .

My first modem was 128 BYTES per second, if I remember correctly. They do
say that memory is the second thing to go . . .

ARPANet. One of the twelve sites at the time.

We did have 110 Baud modems - the kind with the cradle into which you
inserted the telephone handset. Downloading big files from Stanford
onto the computer at Harvard was... interesting... g

John W. Vinson[MVP]

Baud! That was the word I was trying to think of. I knew bytes wasn't
correct. It's that memory thing again . . . My first modem actually did
plug into the phone line, but it was connected to an 8-bit computer, which
was connected to a TV (B&W, 9"). The good old days. And being excited about
a dot-matrix printer that actually did descending characters! And going from
using an audio-cassette-tape for recording programs to a real floppy disk!
(One-sided, so we had to cut a notch in the cover to use the other side.)

I doubt that anyone under the age of 30 actually has any idea what we are
talking about . . .

"John Vinson" wrote:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:23 -0800, mnature
wrote:

And you used gopher to surf the web (in ASCII, of course) . . .

My first modem was 128 BYTES per second, if I remember correctly. They do
say that memory is the second thing to go . . .

ARPANet. One of the twelve sites at the time.

We did have 110 Baud modems - the kind with the cradle into which you
inserted the telephone handset. Downloading big files from Stanford
onto the computer at Harvard was... interesting... g

John W. Vinson[MVP]