How To Create Business Cards Manually In Wordperfect
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How to create business cards manually in WordPerfect without using a template Project by Barry MacDonnell, http://wptoolbox.com (Revised: February 10, 2008)If you need business cards with a more customized design than those you can create withWordPerfect's Business Card Project, you can manually create a business card with the procedureoutlined below. (Note that you can still use the Project in order to stimulate ideas about your owndesign, or to simply copy and paste a Project card’s logo image to your own card.)Once you create the first card – the master card – it can be instantly duplicated with the author’sLABLCOPY macro (http://wptoolbox.com/library/LablCopy.html) to create one or more sheets of 10business cards per sheet
The sample card below will be used to illustrate a procedure that is outlined in detail on thefollowing pages
J ona h C r umbl y Skipper FLOTSAM & JETSAM HARBOR CRUISES “ S p e c ia liz in g in T h r e e -h o u r T o u r s” O NE M ARINA W AY 8 0 0 .1 2 3 .4 5 6 7 S ARASO T A F LOR IDA 3 4 2 3 0 S K IP P E R @ F J.C O MFor your own cards, you can use different images (or none), mixed font typefaces (experiment withnon-standard types) and sizes, and other colors. You can use text boxes (which can be dragged intoposition and even rotated), tables (with or without borders or fills), columns, or any otherformatting tool that WordPerfect offers.1For the purpose of explaining this procedure, let’s keep it relatively simple and use a standard font(Times New Roman) with some changes in font size and color and some typesetting commandsfrom the Format menu
Important: Some format measurements might need to be “tweaked” (or converted to Metric) when you create this card on your own system. However, the general method should work on any system
1 Don't make the card too “busy” or “scattered.” The Flotsam & Jetsam sample on this page might, in fact, givethat appearance since it uses all four corners of the card as well as the center, so try aligning all text along a common axisand put related items in closer proximity, perhaps with smaller fonts (white space is your friend, here). You could also setthe graphic as a dim watermark behind all text. For more design help, consider a book such as The Non-Designer’s Designand Type Books by Robin Williams. (Two books in one volume, published by Peachpit Press, 2007.) It is a very good, easyto read and entertaining reference for those of us who are not professional designers of cards, stationery, brochures, andsimilar items
How to Create Business Cards Manually in WordPerfect 2Procedure1. Open a new, blank document with File, New. Open Reveal Codes with View, Reveal Codes. (Tip: As you work, save frequently.)2. To create the first card – the “master” -- you will need to start a label definition at the top of the page
The word “label” is slightly misleading here. You might expect it to be “card,” since you want to create business cards, but both labels and cards are listed in the same WordPerfect Format module
So here we’ll use the accepted phrase, label definition
“Definition” refers to the fact that you need to first load a defined set of page measurements that WordPerfect can use to set up the business card on its own separate area of the screen, called a “logical page.” To WordPerfect, labels – which includes business cards and several similar items such as badges, post cards, and name plates – are logical pages that will be automatically aligned side-by-side or top- to-bottom by the program when you choose a label definition with Format, Labels. When you duplicate the first card (we’ll discuss this later), they will be printed on one or more physical pages – the card stock you insert into the printer
For most business cards, you will want WordPerfect to create 10 logical pages on one physical page, but there are times when you may need fewer cards. More on this later
3. Let’s assume you would like to use Avery® brand ink jet card stock #8371 (almost any other business card stock with 10 cards per page will do for illustration purposes), and you want to use the same format as the sample card above
Click Format, Labels and choose “Avery 8371 Business Cards” from the list, then click Select. A small, card-shaped white area should appear on the upper left of your screen, surrounded by the (typically gray) workspace background: The white area is the logical page where you will create the first business card. You can How to Create Business Cards Manually in WordPerfect 3 increase the zoom level with View, Zoom to more easily work on the card. (Margin Width is a good zoom setting. A large image of the logical page is preferable to a small, hard-to- see image.) If you look in Reveal Codes you will see two new codes: [Paper Sz/Typ] and [Labels Form]. These make up the label definition
4. Notice that the logical page has four faint, gray margin lines, called margin guidelines
These can be dragged with your mouse by passing your mouse over a margin guideline and when the cursor turns to a double-headed arrow (where each arrowhead points away from a vertical line, indicating available drag directions), you can left-click and drag the margin
If margin guidelines are not visible, enable the View, Guidelines, Margins option
Some business cards might not show margin guidelines if the cards are designed to print text right up to the edge of each card. You can still set page margins manually with Format, Margins
5. Drag the left margin guideline inward until the left margin is set to 0.25 inches. Do the same with the right margin line: drag it inward to set the right margin to 0.25 inches
6. Drag the top margin guideline upward to the minimum amount; drag the bottom margin downward downward to the minimum amount
7. Choose a suitable graphic image, if desired. The logo on the sample card was inserted from the clip art catalog in WordPerfect X3 with Insert, Graphics, Clipart (image #G0909102), then the image was resized to 1" wide by right-clicking on it and choosing Size from the context menu. (The height was set to Maintain Proportions.) Choosing Position, then selecting “Attached box to - Page” (i.e., “anchored” to the page with the checkbox, “Box stays on page”), the image was repositioned so that it was 0.150" from the Right Margin and 0.100" from the Top of Page, and choosing Wrap -“Behind Text” made it easy to add text below it without interfering with the image. Position your own image according to your preferences
8. Next, add the text
a. For the person’s name, set the text size for the person’s name and title with Format, Font to 9-point (select it and make it bold with
b. Next, position the person’s name and title downward on the card with Format, Typesetting, Advance and choose “Vertical position - From top of page.” Uncheck the box, “Text above position” and set the measurement to 0.200" inches
Click OK
i. In the example card, the person’s name and title were “stretched” a bit with Format, Typesetting, Word/Letter Spacing, and setting letter spacing to 125% of optimal. If you like the effect, do this now
c. Click Format, Paragraph, Format, and set the “Spacing between paragraphs - Number of lines” to 0.8 and click OK. This will “close up” subsequent paragraphs
d. Type the person’s name, press
e. The person’s title was indented horizontally from the left with the Format, Typesetting, Advance tool. Click on “Right from insertion point” and set to 0.200". Then click “Down from insertion point” and set to 0.050"
f. Type the person’s title, and, as in the example card, the title was selected (double How to Create Business Cards Manually in WordPerfect 4 click the title) and set in 7-point font with Format, Font, Size. Click on the Italics box, then press OK
i. Note: Instead of using a horizontal Advance setting, you can use spaces, tabs, or no indentation at all. Or, you can put both the name and title in a borderless table or text box to help align the text
g. Move the cursor past all codes with the right arrow key. Press
h. For the business or company name: i. Click Format, Typesetting, Advance and set the vertical position down “From top of page” to 0.800". Again, uncheck the box, “Text above position.” Click OK
ii. Click Format, Font, and choose a Size of 14 points, check Bold, then Small Caps, and choose a Color. Click OK to return to the business card screen
iii. Type the business or company name (the sample card uses two lines separated with a hard return for the company name)
iv. Press the right arrow to skip past any remaining codes (i.e., past the [Sm Cap] code), then press
v. Another simple way to “open up the lines” between the name and the company motto – besides using the Typesetting tool to Advance downward – is to set the paragraph spacing to something other than its current setting
[Each line that ends with a hard return (or style that ends with a hard return) is considered to be a paragraph.] Click Format, Paragraph, Format, and set the “Spacing between paragraphs - Number of lines” to 1.2. Click OK
vi. Change the letter spacing of the motto with Format, Typesetting, Word/Letter Spacing to 120% of optimal. Click OK
vii. Click Format, Font and set the Size to 7 points and check the Italic box
Click OK
viii. Type the motto (if any), then press the right arrow key once to skip past the terminal [Italc] code. Press
i. For the address, phone, and e-mail: i. Click Format, Typesetting, Advance and set the vertical position “Down from insertion point” to 0.200". Click OK
ii. Click Format, Justification, Left, then Format, Font, Small Caps, then choose a color such as black, then click OK
iii. Type the one-line street address, then (don’t skip past any codes) click Format, Line Flush Right
iv. Type the telephone number (select it and make it bold with
v. Type the city, state, etc., then click Format, Line Flush Right and type the e-mail address
How to Create Business Cards Manually in WordPerfect 5 vi. Proofread the card, adjust colors, etc. Save the card with File, Save
9. Duplicate this master card – which should be entirely on one logical page – to fill up the Avery sheet by playing the LABLCOPY macro
A less reliable alternative is to select the master, copy the selection to the clipboard, go to the very bottom of the master, press
WebHow to Create Business Cards Manually in WordPerfect 2 Procedure 1. Open a new, blank document with File, New. Open Reveal Codes with View, Reveal Codes. (Tip: As you work, save frequently.) 2. To create the first card – the “master” -- you will need to start a label definition at the top of the page. The word “label” is slightly
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How do i create a business card in microsoft word?
Choose our business card template, and open it in Word for the web. Tip: If you're already in Word for the web, get to the business card template by going to File > New, and then below the template images click More on Office.com. You'll be on the Templates for Word page. In the list of categories, click Business.
How do i print a business card template?
Delete the pictures you don't want, and then insert pictures from your computer or from the web. To print the business cards, press Ctrl+P, and wait for the Print dialog. This template makes 10 cards. Note: If you don't see a Print dialog box, click the link for opening a PDF version of your business cards.
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When you're working on the business cards, you'll probably want to rename the file and swap out the placeholder pictures with pictures that work for you. Delete the pictures you don't want, and then insert pictures from your computer or from the web. To print the business cards, press Ctrl+P, and wait for the Print dialog.