Oh, boy. Was my wife frustrated. She wanted to simply print a sheet of address labels with her Mac. No templates anywhere it seemed.
So I went on a quest.
Here is what she wanted to do: Simply print an entire sheet of labels using the same address.
Should be a piece of cake, right? WRONG! Address book does have many templates for printing labels, true, but only one at a time.
A good label printing template should do the following: (IMHO)
- Print any number of different address labels any number of copies.
- Have the ability to "skip" over used labels so the labels left from previous jobs are not wasted.
- Be relatively easy to use.
In my search for an answer, I came across this blog entry on Tech-Recipes.com that seemed to be the answer. But on further investigation it was a dead end.
Why, then, does Address Book leave this feature out. Ask Mr. Jobs I guess. There is nothing at all on the Apple forums about the subject that I could find. Although many were asking!
So, what to do? Well, I could go through the hassle of making a Pages template, but I thought I'd look for a simpler solution. I went to Avery's website and there found a Mac application that does the trick.
It is a HUGE download (262 MB) but seems to have all the bells and whistles to make custom labels to your heart's content. Graphics, text, mail merge, along with templates for all of Avery's standard labels.
As a final word, it would be nice if Address Book would do better. But then again, Windows doesn't do it either.
Cheers!
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Cheers!