Printing Labels

My wife needed to print some labels tonight and asked me how to do it with “the new Word”. I’d never done it before so I told her to give me a minute and I’d figure it out and show her.

Let’s just say I needed more than a minute.

With the new ribbon interface, I knew exactly where to go to get things done, but actually accomplishing the task was a little harder.

I’ve done this type of thing before with Word and it wasn’t too hard. It sometimes took me a few minutes to remember how to print different names on all the labels instead of the same name on all the labels, but I’d figure it out. I got to that point with Word 2007 and did everything as needed. Everything seemed good.

The biggest challenge though is when it prepared the document to allow me to start entering names, it didn’t display any of the label margins or guidelines to give me an idea of where to start typing. It all looked like one large, blank piece of white paper. I finally was able to just start typing text, copying the text, then pasting it into the different areas after finding each section by tabbing through. That seemed too convoluted to me though.

Isn’t there a way to show the label borders and guidelines for where to start typing text? Let me know if you figure it out.