printing avery labels

I want to print addresses on Avery labels #5164. The labels I am printing
have a preprinted origination mailing address on the top half. When I place
the destination address, my choices of placement are aligned to the top, or
all the way to the bottom. How do I place my destination address so it's
centered, midway, in the bottom half? i.e. How do I have a top margin of
1.75" on my destination address?

thanks

Add space before to the first paragraph on the label.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




shank wrote:
I want to print addresses on Avery labels #5164. The labels I am
printing have a preprinted origination mailing address on the top
half. When I place the destination address, my choices of placement
are aligned to the top, or all the way to the bottom. How do I place
my destination address so it's centered, midway, in the bottom half?
i.e. How do I have a top margin of
1.75" on my destination address?

thanks

How do I do that? When I add carriage returns to the top of the address, the
whole label template shifts down, as opposed to just the address moving
within the template. This leads to a lot of trial and error instead of
accurate placement.

thanks!

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Add space before to the first paragraph on the label.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




shank wrote:
I want to print addresses on Avery labels #5164. The labels I am
printing have a preprinted origination mailing address on the top
half. When I place the destination address, my choices of placement
are aligned to the top, or all the way to the bottom. How do I place
my destination address so it's centered, midway, in the bottom half?
i.e. How do I have a top margin of
1.75" on my destination address?

thanks

Hi shank

What Graham tried to tell you -- probably not realizing that you wouldn't
recognize the term -- is to select the first paragraph of the label, open
the Format Paragraph dialog, and change the number in the Space Before
box. (If you're doing this within the Labels dialog, you should right-click
the first line of the address and select Paragraph to open the dialog. After
you click OK, the address will "disappear" -- you have to scroll the Address
box to see it again.)

When you change the number, Word will assume it represents "points" (1 point
= 1/72 inch) unless you type a double-quote character or the abbreviation
"in" at the end. So type either 1.75" or 1.75in as your entry.

Also, if you meant the 1.75" to be from the top of the page rather than from
the top of the label, you need to subtract the existing 0.5" top margin from
that value, so enter 1.25" instead.

Finally, the Label dialog creates the label text in a table, with the
default vertical cell alignment set to Centered. In order to use the Space
Before setting properly, the vertical alignment has to be changed to Top. In
the Label dialog, click New Document instead of Print. In the document that
creates, select the table, right-click it, select Cell Alignment, and click
the top-left icon.

Try printing the address on plain paper and comparing its position to the
open area on the preprinted label stock until you get it right.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

shank wrote:
How do I do that? When I add carriage returns to the top of the
address, the whole label template shifts down, as opposed to just the
address moving within the template. This leads to a lot of trial and
error instead of accurate placement.

thanks!

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Add space before to the first paragraph on the label.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

Web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word




shank wrote:
I want to print addresses on Avery labels #5164. The labels I am
printing have a preprinted origination mailing address on the top
half. When I place the destination address, my choices of placement
are aligned to the top, or all the way to the bottom. How do I place
my destination address so it's centered, midway, in the bottom half?
i.e. How do I have a top margin of
1.75" on my destination address?

thanks