FREE Scrapbook Digital Staionery Training…

Posted on December 16th, 2007 by wwaddell.
Categories: Scrapbook Articles, Scrapbook Tips, Training.

FREE Scrapbook Digital Staionery Training…  What to do if your printer doesn’t print borderless.

Hi Scrapbook Friend,

We got a really nice note from one of our FREE Digital Stationery users yesterday and she was nice enough to follow up today with instruction on how she solved her digital stationery problems using her MS Word software.

Kathy and I wanted to pass it along to you so you could benifit from what Patricia showed us…

From: Patricia Ann Meyer

Glad to have made your day … The day I found the www.1-Computer-Stationery.com FREE digital stationery and got that problem out of the way made mine.

Just FYI: I did notice the Word templates. But, there was a little problem with the templates and my printer, because the templates are “edge to edge,” and my printer, which is a little Xerox Phaser color laser lover, doesn’t print quite edge to edge. I think most photo printers do, but a general purpose printer doesn’t necessarily. So, the outer edge of the pictures was cut off, which just didn’t quite look right to me. If anyone else has this problem, and needs help, this is what I did to create my digital stationaries for my version of MS Word:

1. Take the www.1-Computer-Stationery.com “jpg” of your selected stationery, import it into your photo editor, and resize it to 8″ across. This is an easy number to remember, and will give you 1/4″ extra paper on the sides and a tad more at the top and bottom. Save your smaller picture.

2. Open your new Word document. Set your page margins to .25″ all around. This is “file” “page setup” “margins.”

3. Choose “insert” “picture” “from file” and then browse for your saved, smaller picture. Your top and side margins will be the .25″ that you just set, and you will have a little extra space at the bottom.

4. To center your picture, click in your picture. Then choose “format” “picture.” Then choose “layout” “behind text.” “OK” that. Then choose “format” “picture” “layout” (again) and then “advanced” “picture position.” Then, for both horizontal and vertical “alignment,” choose “centered” “relative to page.” Uncheck “move with text.” Choose “OK” twice. Your picture is now within your print area, and centered on your paper.

4. Type your letter. To start, your text will be smushed up against your upper left corner, so you will move it with paragraph formatting. Choose all of your text with “ctrl-A.” Select your font, color, whatever. To set your side margins, choose “format” “paragraph” “indentation” and set the “left” and “right” indents to be the margin you want. For example, if you want 1-inch margins, set the indents to 1″. Some of the papers do not have an all-over pattern. In that event, you will want to set the indent at .75″ because you already have .25″. Click anywhere in your letter to unhighlight your text. To set your top margin, click anywhere in your first paragraph. Then choose “format” “paragraph” “spacing” “before.” Then, put in enough space to clear your top design and whatever extra space you want, say, 2″. Your text will now be spaced however you want it on top of your picture.

5. If your stationery has an all-over texture background, after you have printed, trim off the little border of white paper. This will make your letter roughly 8″ x 10.25″, but I don’t imagine anyone will notice that!

Hope I have helped out someone with these instructions, and made a little contribution to your site!

Patricia Ann Meyer

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