[Rockhounds] lables

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Robert,

Forget downloading labels. Make your own. 

Fire up your favorite word processor. Make a label for 'Leaverite' from
'Anywhere, Any State, USA'. Make up descriptive details for any other
attributes you want on the label (like specimen #, formula, when
collected, etc.) and add them.  Don't forget to Save. Add optional
border and/or your name. Play with the fonts. Format and size it until
it looks right. Print a sample on thick paper, cut it out, and try it
with some random specimens from your collection.

When you are happy, change your page format to columns as wide as your
label. Select and Copy the label. Paste the label until you have filled
the first page, and reach the second column on the second page. Play
with your margins and see if you can get more labels on the page. Play
with the bottom and top margins so you don't spread any label between
columns. Try both portrait and landscape formats to see which gives you
more labels. Finally, delete the second page, and save it as something
like 'LabelTemplate'.

When you need to make labels, open a New file/document in your word
processor, Import the 'LabelTemplate' file (to make sure it never gets
changed), and replace the made up data with information about your
actual specimens. Print on your label stock (thick paper, stick on
labels, or whatever you like) -- the more labels on a page you can do at
once, the less pages of label/paper stock you use. Cut/Trim each sheet
with a paper cutter or scissors. 

You got labels. It is easy after the first one.

Kreigh




ROBERT A SANTEE wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody can anybody tell me were i can download free lables for my
> rock collection thanks.