Business Cards

[Cindylu]

I'm trying to make some business cards and it keeps giving me a view of all TEN card that will print. This does not work the way I am used to (using Publisher). I don't want to create a business card and then have to type the entire thing over and over again ten times. Is there a way for me to get a view so I can just create one card and then print 10 copies of it on the sheet? This is the way it usually works with Microsoft products.

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry, but we have no idea what "it" is that "keeps giving" you a view of 10
cards.

In order to offer anything meaningful we need to know:

What *Program*,
What specific *version* of that program,
What exact operating system: This is a Mac Office group but you refer to
Publisher which doesn't run on Macintosh computers.

What you want to do is most likely readily available but it's impossible to
suggest how to go about it if we have no idea what you're working with.

 

[JChambors]

I have the same question as the earlier poster. When you load a business card template in Word 2008:mac, you get 10 copies of the default card. I don't want to enter the same information and graphics 10 times, once for each card on the sheet. Cutting an pasting 10 times doesn't make sense either. Programs like Publisher for Windows gives you one card to edit. When you print the card, it generates 10 duplicates on the sheet. Can I enter the information once and have it appear on all 10 cards? Thanks.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Yeah, well, Publisher is a better app to make business cards than Word is.

Business cards are just a specially sized label. For text, you can use
Tools | Labels, and it will put text in all the labels on the page--you
can add formatting first. But that falls down if you want graphics on
your business cards.

You can copy and paste to all 10 cells. Using text boxes or the Group
command might make this a little easier, but I don't do graphics, so I
don't really know.

One approach is to save the graphic as an AutoText entry, say, one named
Watermark. Then you can put the field {AUTOTEXT Watermark} in Tools |
Labels, along with your text. This has been tested in WinWord for
watermarks that are set to behind text, but I suspect it falls down if
you want the text next to the image. Haven't tried it myself.