Business Card Printing, Packaging and Manufacturing Process Discussion VI

Sixth, using software to create business cards

(a) WPS 97 business card making method:

I wonder if you know that you can create a variety of colorful business cards using the "custom-tag (dance ticket)" in the WPS97 template file. If you are interested, you might as well do it with me.

First, modify the template file

1  Start WPS97, open the "File" menu, select "create new file" command, the dialog box shown in Figure 1 appears.

2  Select the "label" item in the "Custom", press the "OK" button, then opened a label template file with shading and lace. This is a dance ticket label with a width of 85mm and a height of 55mm. If you like this template, you can directly input your own text content to replace the original content, but this can only create 8 business cards, otherwise it will go down.

3  Select the first tag, and then click the Object Properties command on the Object menu. The text box window as shown in Figure 2 appears.

Click the area to the right of Edge Style. A list of edge lines appears. Select Dot Line, Edge Color to select Black, and click Close to return. Double-click the tab, click the "Select All" command in the "Edit" menu, and press the DEL key to delete all the text.
4. Repeat the above steps to remove the lace and text of the remaining 7 text boxes.

5  Click the "Page Setup" command in the "File" menu and set the size of the business card paper 194mm x 295mm. The top and bottom margins are 12.5mm each, and the right and left margins are 7mm each.

6  Click the first label box on the left, right-click the box, click the "Object Properties" command, the "Text Box" window appears, in the window set the left = 7 and the upper side = 12.5, width = 90, height = 54, "text wrap" select "does not affect the text", click "close" to return.
7  Click the first tag on the right, right-click the box, click the "Object Properties" command, the "Text Box" window appears, in the window set the left = 97, the upper side = 12.5, width = 90, height = 54 , "Text wrap" select "Does not affect the text", click "Close" to return.

8  Repeat steps 6 and 7 according to the size of the business card (width = 90, height = 54) and page settings to complete the settings of the remaining 6 text boxes.

9  Click "Insert" menu "Text box" command, then the cursor becomes "+" font, drag the cross cursor at the bottom of the page, pull out an area, adjust the size of width 90, height 54, on The border coincides with the bottom border of the next text frame.

10  repeat the previous step, then insert a text box of the same size, hold down Alt while clicking anywhere outside the ten text box, click the "Object" menu "Object Properties" command, the image box window appears, in In this window, click the area to the right of "Print Style", select "Do not print", and click "Close" to return. You will see the results of the ten business card text boxes. Click the "Save as Template" command in the "File" menu. , save as a business card template.

Second, business card production

1 Click the first text box in the previous business card template, click the "Insert" menu "Graphics", "single-line text" command, then the cursor becomes "+" font, drag the cursor in the text box, Pull out a single-line text box, use any type of Chinese character input method, select the font, font size, and enter the contents of the business card.

2. Repeat the above steps and enter the contents of all lines.

3  Adjust the contents of each line to the appropriate position, hold down the Shift key while clicking on all the lines, and click on the “Combine” menu “Combine” command, in which case all the lines are combined into a single entity.

4 Click the Copy command on the standard toolbar.

5  Click any area outside the text box, and then click the "Paste" command on the toolbar. A copy of the business card is created. Then drag it to other text boxes and adjust it to the right place.

6 Repeat the previous step and copy the remaining 8 business cards. In this way, ten business cards on a piece of paper will be produced!

(b) Making Business Cards with Excel 97

You can create beautiful business cards by yourself using the artistic words in Excel 97. I believe that after you finish this article, you will not need to ask for business cards.

1. Create Excel 97 new document, rename the worksheet

(1) First copy a worksheet. Press the "Ctrl" key and drag the sheet "Sheet 1" to "Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2" to copy a sheet named "Sheet 1 (2)".

(2) Right-click on the sheet name "Sheet 1", select the "Rename" command in the shortcut menu, and rename "Sheet1" to "Business card typesetting", and the same method will be "Sheet1(2)" and "Sheet2". Renamed "Sheet3" as "Business Card Horizontal", "Card Vertical" and "Business Card Back".

2, set the page size

(1) Select the "Business Card Horizontal" worksheet, click the "Page Setup" command in the "File" menu, click on the "Page" tab in the "Page Setup" dialog box, set the paper size to A4, and select " Vertical check box.

(2) Click the "Margin" tab in the "Page Setup" dialog box, set the left and right margins to 0.5, and the top and bottom margins to 0.5. Also select the Horizontally Centered, Vertically Centered check box. Also set the above page for the "Card Vertical", "Business Card Back" worksheet. When you set the Vertical Business card worksheet, change the Vertical check box to the Horizontal check box.

3, set the business card size

The size of a typical business card is 90mm x 55mm. The A4's paper size is 210mm x 297mm, so up to 10 cards can be designed for an A4 size paper.

(1) Select the "Business card typesetting" worksheet, drag column A right border to set column A to a width of 43, select 1, 2 rows and then drag 1 and 2 rows below the bottom border of the row header, set 1, 2 rows Line height 154. Similarly set the B3 cell to a column width of 25 and a row height of 265.

(2) In the same principle, the A1 to B5 cells in the "Business Card Horizontal" and "Business Card Back" worksheets are set to have a column width of 44 and a row height of 155; the A1 to E2 cell settings of the "Business Card Vertical" worksheet are set. Column width 26, row height is 270.

4, type the name of the business card

(1) Go to the "Business card layout" worksheet and click the "Draw" button on the toolbar.

(2) Click the "Insert WordArt" button on the "Drawing" toolbar. Double-click the desired special effect in the WordArt Gallery dialog box.

(3) In the "Edit Word Art" text dialog box, type in the corresponding text "unit name", select the appropriate "font", "font size" and other desired options, and then click "confirm" button.

(4) Drag and drop the typed content to the corresponding position in cell A1. Repeat the above "Insert Word Art" process, insert relevant contents such as "name", "department", "address", and "telephone", and edit and adjust the above content, size, and relative position according to your own preference.
The A2 cell is the content on the back of the business card, and can be inserted into the corresponding content such as the business card English content, business product information and the like according to needs by inserting the word art. The B3 cell is the content of the "vertical ranking film". Just double-click the "Art Word" style of the vertical effect in the "Art Fonts" dialog box.

5, paste the link card content, generate a business card document

(1) Select the "Business card typesetting" A1 cell in the worksheet and click the "Copy" button in the "Common" toolbar.

(2) enter the "business card horizontal row" worksheet, press the "Shift" key while clicking on the "Edit" menu, select the "paste the link picture" option, respectively, the worksheet "card typesetting" A1 cell The content is pasted as a picture and linked to the worksheet "Card row" A1 to B5.

(3) Similarly paste the contents of the worksheet “business card layout” A2 into the cells of the worksheet “back of the business card” A1 to B5 in the form of a picture; paste the contents of the worksheet “business card layout” B3 in the form of a picture Link to the worksheet "Card Vertical" A1 to E3 cells.
6, save the business card document as a template

In the "Save As" dialog box, select "Template" under the "Save as type" area and type "Business card" in the "File name" box to save the business card document as a template.

7, use the "business card" template print business card production

In the common tab page of the New Document dialog box, click the "Business Card" template, and then click OK to open the "Business Card" for business card editing. This method is similar to step 4, when you can insert pictures and so on.

Because there is a link between the contents of the "Business card horizontal" worksheet and the contents of the "Business card layout" worksheet A1 cell, the changes in the contents of cell A1 will be reflected in the "business card horizontal" worksheet. Go to the “Business Card Horizontal” worksheet and place the business card paper in the printer. Click the “File” menu and select the “Print” command to print the business card. A copy of the same 10 business cards that appear in the cell of the "Business card layout" worksheet A1 will appear before your eyes. (to be continued)