The Big News is Tiger Woods

But Why? President Obama gave a speech on state of the war in Afghanistan, but Tiger Woods cheating on his gorgeous wife has the news media abuzz. You know people are going nuts over this story when google searches, 7 of the top 20 searches, have to do with Tiger.
How, you say, am I going to get in a plug for Macolabels in a post like this? It doesn’t matter, we’re so excited about our labels, Tiger Woods is story #2. Story #1 is Maco laser labels and inkjet labels. Maco labels are the choice to make if you’re thinking of buying Avery laser labels or Avery inkjet labels, because the quality is just as high. It’s the price difference that will shock you. You will save lots o cash if you buy our labels.

Some Mail Merge Examples

How you print mailing labels in MSWord depends on how you entered the data in your Excel spreadsheet. At http://www.macolabels.com we see customers who enter address data in Excel in a variety of ways.
The most common way to enter data in Excel is to enter data in assigned columns. The 1st column, column A might be NAME. The 2nd column, column B COMPANY, column C ADDRESS, column D CITY, column E STATE, and column F might be ZIP. Often times, column D, E, and F are put into one field as CITYSTZIP.
If you entered the data in this manner, you will need to create a primary merge document that looks like this:
http://www.macolabels.com/templates/ml-3000-primary.doc
This primary merge document is the same layout as the laser label that Avery makes, the Avery 5160 laser label. It’s also inkjet compatible.

And your address list could look like this:
http://www.macolabels.com/templates/addresslist.xls

For an in detailed tour of the mail merge procedure, check out Microsoft’s site:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/ha010349201033.aspx

Some of our users also enter their address data in to an excel spreadsheet as it might appear on a label. That is, each cell contains the data that prints out on a label.
Something like this:
http://www.macolabels.com/templates/addresslist2.xls
To make this document so that you can merge it with a primary document, make the document into a one column document so that it looks like this:
http://www.macolabels.com/templates/addresslist3.xls
You would then create a primary merge document that would look like this:
http://www.macolabels.com/templates/ml-3000-primary3.doc
Make sure you’ve clicked on the Mailings tab so that you have all the Merging functions to choose from.

Thanksgiving is over

The yearly weight gain has begun. I’m going to have to fast for two weeks to break even. Oh well, it’s back to work. if you’re doing some shipping this holiday season, and who isn’t, you might be using our shipping labels. It’s not too hard to add graphics to make the labels look good.
If you use Microsoft Word 2007, here’s how you do it.
Click on the Mailings tab, between the References and Review tabs.
Then click on Labels in the Create panel on the left.
The Envelopes and Labels dialogue box should pop up. Here is where you’ll select your label layout.
One choice for shipping label could be the Avery 5164 which has 6 labels per page and each label is 4″ X 3-1/3″.
Click on “Label”, and another dialog box will pop up and you can choose “Avery US Letter” in the “Label vendors” drop down selection box. Then choose 5164 in the “Product number” box. Click OK.
You’ll see that a picture of the label you selected appear in the Label panel.
Then click “New Document”.
At this point, you’ll have a blank document formatted to print Avery 5164 labels. To insert pictures, just click on the “Insert” tab. Then click on Picture. Choose the picture you want to insert. Once the picture is inserted, you’ll want to format the picture. Click on “Position” in the Format Tab. There are lots of options at this point, I could write pages of instructions because I’m only guessing what you need.
If you need high quality low cost labels, check out Macolabels.com . Our equivalent to the Avery 5164 laser label is the Maco ML-0600. You can check it out here:
http://www.macolabels.com/ml-0600.html

Corn Bread recipes

Whats with the Corn Bread Recipes and Stuffing Recipes you say? Well, it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, and there’s just about nobody working out there today. So here are some links for Corn Bread & other Stuffing for your Turkey.
Southwester Gluten Free cornbread Dressing
Tasty Stuffing Recipes
10 Recipes the Pundits Love
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our customers from Macolabels.com

The dow is down 58 points

All the more reason to save with Maco Labels . You’ve got to squeeze every penny of value for every product your buying. If you haven’t yet tried our Laser labels or Inkjet Labels, now is the time. We have label sizes that are compatible with Avery Labels sizes.

Manipulating Graphics in Word

Have you ever placed graphics in a word document, and formatted it so that the graphic appears behind the text, and then you can’t figure out how to select it? Well, you can select the clip art. Here’s how. Select the Home tab at the top left. Then select “Select” all the way on the right. It’s right under Find and Replace. Then select “Objects”. Once you do that, you’ll see you can click on and manipulate the graphics. I just used this to select a graphic in one of our Avery 5160 Equivalent Laser labels, at http://www.macolabels.com/ml-3000.html .
Here’s an example of graphics on a label layout:

Printing a few labels at at time?

If you’re printing a few labels at at time and want to re-use the sheet with the unused labels, here are some tips.
For example, if your using the Maco ML-3000 that is compatible with the Avery Label Avery 5160, after printing a few labels, you’ll have a sheet of labels with one or two labels taken off the the page. Make sure you print the labels at the bottom of the page so that when you print the next few labels, you can feed the used page of labels with the unused labels first into the printer.
If you’re using an Inkjet printer, just make sure that the labels are not at all peeling off. If you run a sheet through an Inkjet printer too many times, the labels might start peeling off because of the tight paths the paper takes around the rollers. This could become a huge problem and get stuck on the print head, and can ruin the print head and the carriage motor.
If you’re using a laser printer, running a page of labels through a few times can cause several problems. One problem is that the overexposure to the heat from the fuser can cause the labels to peel and jam in the fuser. Inspect your labels before feeding them through multiple times. Laser printers also leave a layer of toner on the whole page. It’s normally not noticeable if you’re printing just one page, one time, but if your printing one page multiple times, the page will become darker and darker with each successive print. If you have an old printer, the darkening problem will be more severe.

OpenOffice ML-0600 Template, and Microsoft Word Template

Here is another OpenOffice ML-0600 template and a Microsoft word ML-0600 template that is compatible with the Avery Label Template for the Avery Label Ave 5164.

Dumbells aren’t just for Ahhhnald

If you sell jewelry, you’ll appreciate our dumbbell labels, and more dumbbell labels

Avery Labels doesn’t have these

Our customers love our ML-0400 quarter sheet shipping labels. Don’t bother looking for the same layout in an Avery Label, you won’t find one. Avery doesn’t make it.