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Macros, tips, and templates for Corel® WordPerfect® for Windows®
© Copyright 1996-2008 by Barry MacDonnell. All Rights Reserved.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Click on Format | Labels. In the Labels window, select the label or card format you want to use, such as Avery 5371 Business Cards.

2. Your screen should now display a single, small "page" representing a single label or card on the Avery sheet. You can adjust page margins now or adjust the text box's contents later. If using Avery business cards, you'll duplicate this card to fill up the sheet of 10 cards later. For now, click on Insert | Text Box. A small text box with a hatched border should fill the card horizontally, between the margins. Click anywhere outside this text box to move the insertion cursor outside the box. The box's border should now be a solid black line.

3. Select the box with your mouse or Edit | Edit Graphics Box. Eight small, solid black square "handles" appear around the perimeter of the box, and a Graphics Property Bar appears on your tool bar.

4. Click on the Graphics button on the property bar. Choose In Front of (or Behind) Text. This will ensure the box fits the card and nothing underneath "spills over" to the second card. In other words, it makes the box transparent to any underlying material, and won't push anything that may be underneath onto the next page.

5. Click Graphics | Border/Fill, then in the Border tab, click on the blank icon in the upper left corner of the Available Border Styles list to remove the text box's border (unless, of course, you want a border).

6. Click Graphics | Size. Choose "Full" for the width and height. This will create a box that fills the page between all four page margins. Click OK to accept the next dialog message that informs you that the box's placement will be changed to Page.

If you see that the full-size box creates a second card or label onscreen (due to WP's insertion of a [THRt-SPg] code), you will need to reduce the size of the text box until the second card or label disappears. You can do this by selecting the box and dragging the rightmost handle on the box's edge inward a small amount. The idea is to maintain a single page (card or label) onscreen.

7. Click Graphics | Content. First choose "Rotate text...90 degrees," then choose "Horizontal position...Left." (The latter choice places the text box's contents at the top of the vertically formatted card. Choose "...Centered" if you want the contents to be centered between the top and bottom of the vertical card.)

8. Next, click on the Edit button while in this Box Content window to enter your card's text in the full-size Text Box Editor screen that appears. Note that here you can enter graphics and borderless tables (which, for example, help line things up into columns). You can also center text between the tall sides of the vertical card with Format | Justification. Click on the property bar's Close icon (or File | Close) when done.

9. Save your work with File | Save. This is your "master" business card (or label) and can be used again to create more cards (or labels).

Note that you can add normal (portrait oriented) text for unusual effects.

10. Duplicate the card "x" more times to fill up a sheet of labels or cards, either by (a) copying the text box to the clipboard (you can select the box by right-clicking it, then choose Select Box; then press <Ctrl+C> to copy it to the clipboard; then unselect the box by clicking elsewhere on the page) and going to the bottom of the card or label and to enter Hard Page Breaks <Ctrl+Enter> followed by Paste commands (<Ctrl+V> to create the required number of copies, or by (b) using LABLCOPY in the Library.

Note: If you use LABLCOPY to make duplicates of the master vertical card or label created with the above "full-size text box" method, uncheck the box on LABLCOPY's main menu ("Use separate document'). This will make all copies in the same (i.e., original) document, not in a new document window. For cards that use full-size text boxes, an apparent small bug in WordPerfect (versions 8, 9, and 10) causes the first copied text box to shift slightly if a new document is used for the copies of the cards or labels. This is merely irritating and easily corrected by repositioning the box, but making copies in the original window sidesteps the problem.