I have some Wilton place cards for guests at a wedding reception but the Wilton template (a Word document) doesn't accommodate what I want to print. I actually thought I had Publisher but, alas, it didn't come with this version of Office 2010.

Individual place cards are 3.75 w x 1.75 h when folded and appear 6 per page (2 columns of 3) on standard 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 0.5 inch borders. The printable area on the front of each 'tent' is 3.25 w x 1.25 h. I want to place a graphic (measuring 0.5 w x 1.25 h) at the left edge of the printable area and 2 rows of centered text in the area to the right of the graphic.

I started out with a 2 x 6 table and thought I could leave the 'cells' that would print on the back of each tent empty and add a text box to those that will print on the front of each tent. It almost works, but I can't figure out how to place the graphic in the text box and still be able to print 2 rows of text to the right of it.



I published a 28-page PTA newsletter with Word 5.0 back in the 90s so this should be a piece of [wedding] cake with Word 2010! What am I missing?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Hi Let98007

Try this link you may be able to work it out.
http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm

Kind regards
janinecrutch.com

If you want printing on both sides of the tent card, you need to put your document in landscape orientation. Your template will be a table. You change the text direction in the table cells.

That, or use Word Art which gives you graphics. Then you would want Graham's page on graphics on labels.

Thanks for your response. I only want to print on one side of the tent, but had problems placing both graphics (scanned from the invitation) and text within the "label" format. I ended up having to do the task in 2 passes, one for the graphic and the other for the text, but they turned out exactly as the bride wanted them!

I think that might have helped. The hard part was figuring out the "unpublished" minimum for margins based on my specific printer. Where IS this information in the printer specs I wonder. . ..