DIY - How to Make Avery Labels in a Whopping 30 seconds!
The other day, my girlfriend’s brother wanted me to make him some address and shipping labels for his new Thai restaurant. Well, I didn’t want to pay taxes, I found a good site on Google called World Label. They got pretty good prices, much better than getting them at your OfficeDepot or OfficeMax. Since they are based in New York, I didn’t have to pay taxes (I am California) or pay the overpriced retail prices. Since the matter wasn’t urgent, I figured it’d be a good go.
You should check out their Generic Avery labels and Shipping Labels, the prices are much better than your local retail shop. World Label also has many other interesting labels such as the CD/DVD Labels or Starburst Labels, which I might use in the near future.
Why do you ask? I never buy anything retail or at least at retail prices. There are so many great online stores you can visit, why bother even wasting your gas? Especially books, I saved a bunch of money by becoming an Amazon affiliate and buying it from myself. (Although I think their ToS says not to, I figure I couldn’t get caught in their gigantic system. Besides, I am not making any money being an Amazon affiliate.) Amazon has a great discount on books even if you are not an affiliate, it’s 25-30% cheaper than buying from your local Borders or Barnes & Noble.
Well, the point of the story is that I did try to use Microsoft Word to make the labels but I encountered a problem. Most of the time when I make labels, I usually end up spending 5 hours trying to align my address to the labels. It’s a big headache even if I think about it. I did used to use a label machine but that was at my old job and I was stuck with my good ol’ HP Deskjet F380.
The greatest part about this experience is that the labels I bought from World Label also provides free templates for all the labels they sell. I did try to download it from the Avery site, but they make you register and you know how I hate to put any personal information on any site or even bother registering.
Anyways, here’s how you can make Avery Labels and Shipping Labels in a whopping 30 seconds!
1) Download the free Avery Label template = 5 seconds.
2) Open up the template in Microsoft Word = 5 seconds.
3) Type in the address, then copy & paste to all the 36 label spots = 20 seconds.
4) Hit the print button! (Okay, we didn’t include the time to print since you can do other things while it’s printing.)
I like to save a lot of time when I do stuff, and these free templates just saved me like 5 hours of stupid alignment work. I wonder who’s behind the company, they did a great job of making these labels and save me a bunch of time. (Will they send me a sample? Lol…everytime I add this line, I get free stuff, isn’t that crazy?)
Maybe you can bookmark this post for your next label printing time and make sure to subscribe to Zedomax for more little DIYs that will save you time around the office.
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dude….
Dont make people download templates…. its all already built into MS Word.
To make a sheet of labels (all the same label), just do this… its quicker than the above method.
In MS Word, go to these menus: Tools > Letters and Mailings > Mail Merge
Click the ‘Labels’ tab
Then tell it what type of labels you are using. (HINT: Your most likely using Avery 5160)
Then in the big box, just type the name/address or whatever you want to appear on the labels.
Click the ‘New Document’ button and presto.
One entire sheet of labels.
Just click print and put in however many copies ya want.
Much quicker and easier than downloading and editing an already made template.
-Brian Gaut
-Schwippy.com
Hi Brian, good stuff, but actually that’s what I was referring to about the 5 hours. The built-in MS Word Avery labels don’t work!
Anyways, great to see you around though.
Actually found the template i needed much quicker from the World Label site than in the MS Word, plus if you dont know the product number and only the size, MS Word is worthless, and there is a much bigger selection. The PDF templates ones could be interesting to use as a guidline when I try and design in Photoshop…..
great idea, even better, cs photoshop files would be great.