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Need help creating a template
Hello everyone,
I'm new here, but not to Word. Hoping I can get some help with a problem I haven't found a solution for yet. I have some 4" x 6" C-Line photo pages that include some tearable cardstock inserts that you can write on or type on and then insert into the page (this is their product # 52564 if you are interested in seeing yourself). The inserts are on a perforated sheet 7" wide by 10" tall and there are 10 inserts per sheet, only 1 insert wide.
I figured I could create a custom label template as follows and use that:
When I start a new document using this label template, on screen it looks exactly like the insert sheets:
The problem is that I would like to center the text vertically on each "label" before centering it horizontally. Unfortunately, every attempt I have made has been unsuccessful. All text is started at the very top of each insert/"label". I've tried typing out my text and then using Layout>Page Setup>Layout>Page Alignment to center the text, but it simply shifts everything down and prevents the use of the bottom/10th insert:
- Are my settings correct for the "label" template?
- Is there a way to set the label template as vertically centered versus top alignment?
- Should I be looking elsewhere to vertically center any text I type in?
- Any other advice on how to solve this problem?
Greatly appreciated in advance.
Labels, in Word, are simply Tables. All of the controls that apply to tables apply to labels as well.
The alignment controls for cells in the Table Layout tab work:
Note that space-before and space-after paragraph formatting also apply.
Here is my page on Templates in Microsoft Word.
