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<p class="Head2">Designing Business Cards via Dialog</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Choose <help:link Id="68491" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">File - New - Business Cards</span></help:link> to open a dialog with several tabs which allow you to choose how your business cards will look.</p>
<p class="Head2">Designing Labels and Business Cards</p>
<p class="Paragraph">There is yet another way of designing business cards - <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>if you regard business cards as a simplified, special kind of label. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>In general, all business cards are the same. Labels can be filled with different contents obtained from a database, or they can be marked with serial numbers.</p>
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<p class="P2">Choose <help:link Id="68487" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">File - New - Labels</span></help:link> to open the <span class="T1">Labels</span> dialog.</p>
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<p class="P2">On the <span class="T1">Labels</span> tab, under <span class="T1">Format</span>, define the label format.</p>
<p class="P2"><help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Writer contains many formats of commercially available sheets for <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>labels, badges, business cards etc. You can add other, user-defined formats.</p>
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<p class="P2">On the <span class="T1">Labels</span> tab, under <span class="T1">Inscription</span>, you can choose what you want written on the labels.</p>
<p class="P2">This often involves database fields, so that the labels can be printed with varying content, when sending "Form Letters" for example. But it is equally possible to have the same text printed on every label.</p>
<p class="P2">Use the combo boxes to select the database and table from which the data fields are obtained. Click on the big arrow to transfer the selected data field into the inscription area. Press Enter to insert a line break. You can also enter spaces and any other fixed text.</p>
<p class="P2">On the <span class="T1">Format</span> tab you can define your own label formats, not covered by the predefined formats. To be able to do this, the label type on the <span class="T1">Labels</span> tab must be set to "User-defined". On the <span class="T1">Options</span> tab, you can specify whether all labels or only certain ones are to be created.</p>
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<p class="P2"><help:key-word value="synchronize contents" tag="kw68492_4" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="labels; synchronizing" tag="kw68492_3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="synchronizing labels" tag="kw68492_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>On the <span class="T1">Options</span> tab page, make sure that the <span class="T1">Synchronize contents</span> check box is marked. If this is marked, an identically repeated label only has to be entered (on the top left label) and edited once.</p>
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<p class="P2">As soon as you click on <span class="T1">New Document</span>, you will see a small window with the <span class="T1">Synchronize Labels</span> button. Enter the first label. When you click on the <span class="T1">Synchronize Labels</span> button, the current individual label is copied to all the other labels on the sheet.</p>
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<p class="P2">Click on <span class="T1">New Document</span> to create a new document with the settings you have entered.</p>
