Use Text Boxes And Graphics In Microsoft ® Word - Avery Dennison Label Printer User Manual

Use Text Boxes and Graphics in Microsoft
You may prefer to design your labels using text boxes. Text boxes allow more flexibility when
working with graphics, such as a company logo. A few of the Microsoft
features are included here. For more information on using text boxes, refer to the Help file or
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the Microsoft Word manual.
Once you have created the label document, text boxes may be inserted for the company logo,
return address, shipping address and/or other graphics. You can type and format text or insert
clip art or graphics into a text box.
To insert a text box, click in the label and select Insert > Text Box.
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A pre-designed box appears with the text Create Your Drawing Here. This will disappear as
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you work with the text box.
The actual text box may appear within the first box, which is the Drawing Canvas. The
Drawing Canvas may not always appear on the screen while you are working with the text
box. The Drawing Canvas has "L" shaped sizing bars in all four corners and sizing bars on
each side of the drawing canvas.
Click inside the box to type in text or insert graphics. To insert graphics, select Insert >
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Picture. Select Clip Art or select From File to locate a stored graphic, such as a company
logo. If you selected Clip Art, click Clip Organizer from the Insert Clip Art Task Pane.
Change the directory if necessary to locate a graphic file or clip art.
To select a clip art image, point to the image and click the down arrow to the right of the
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image. Select Copy. Close the Clip Organizer. Select Yes to keep the image in the clipboard.
Select Edit > Paste to insert the clip art image in the text box. Size the image within the text
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box if necessary. Click the image, and then click one of the handles on the image frame. The
cursor will change to a two-arrow pointer. Holding down the mouse button, drag the box to
the desired size. To maintain the image proportions click and drag a corner square while
holding down the Shift key.
To change the shape and size of the text box, click one of the handles on the text box frame.
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The cursor will change to a two-arrow pointer. Holding down the mouse button, drag the box
to the desired size. To maintain the text box proportions click and drag a corner square while
holding down the Shift key.
To move the text box, click the outside frame. The cursor will change to a four-arrow
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pointer. Hold down the mouse button and move the box to a new location.
If it is difficult to position the box, you may want to disable the snap to grid option. To do
so, select Draw > Grid on the Drawing toolbar, and then deselect Snap objects to grid.
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