We will come to what margins are shortly. Eight numbers are needed, and only the choice of the word "margin" instead of "offset" is at all disputable. The figure scales automatically as I enter the measurements - very cool! - and thus provides an accurate description of my labels. Let's peek into Word 2003, to get a feeling of how labels are viewed in Office applications. Like for my classes, I didn't buy any actual labels, but invented my own.
Custom label wizard access how to#
I am not going to explain how to use the wizards, but they provide a good introduction, especially in the way they fail. Although the screen shots are from version 2003, exactly the same method works in all versions. This article demonstrates a simple and efficient way to handle labels in Access, perhaps pleasant enough for them to become fun again. The wizard, obviously, isn't a typographer. The second problem, how to print several compositions on one large "label sheet" is a distinct task, but in reality an easy one. A typographer will automatically treat a label as nothing more than a special paper size, and compose content for that size. The "wizard", just like Word, doesn't use virtual pages, but tries to solve everything using the physical page. There are explanations for all of them, just as tedious as the symptoms, but their fundamental cause is simple. There is obviously some magic involved: sometimes it works and other times you are informed that "some data may not be displayed" or that "the section width is greater than the page width", you get the wrong paper size, or experience some other mishaps. If you have used the "label wizard", you probably think the latter. It was no longer possible to cover labels, envelopes, columns, and basic mail-merge in one day labels alone required one day. Something be be feared and somewhat magical, like many other features of that program. Once I (reluctantly) switched to Word, the fun was gone. Before the morning break, every student had printed a first sheet of "fake" labels, in reality photocopies of an original with hand-drawn rectangles. The program was WordPerfect - some antique DOS version without even a print preview feature - and it was fun because it was easy, and it worked. The first time I had to teach "labels", it was fun. Printing labels is one of those things that can be surprisingly fun or extremely tedious, depending on the program being used.
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