Okay, this was a stupid suggestion, unless you aren't purposefully using Word and OO to maintain some sort of Windows compatability. Sorry. George Fischer <gfischer at visi.com> writes: > Or use glabels. I've found it pretty easy, but then I've never done > anything complicated, either. > > http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ > > "rick " <rick at eworld3.net> writes: > >> You know that you can make business cards inside OpenOffice.org. I bought blank cards on an 8.5x11 sheet at OfficeMax and printed on my Laser printer. Let me know (off list) if you want to know more about how that works. >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >> From: Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> >> Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:29:27 -0600 >> >>>I created a document using Word 97 (I'm not buying another M$ license) >>>The document is a table with business card size cells (for business cards) >>> >>>It has a graphic in each of the cells >>>It has 2 bullet points >>>It has 2 different fonts, some bold. >>>No color. >>> >>>Standard information for a business card. >>> >>>As a word doc it's 671k, for one page, it has a graphic on each card. >>> >>>I opened it in OO Writer and saved it as an OO Writer "sxw" file, it's >>>6,724k ! >>>OUCH that's a bit large for one page, over 6.5 megabytes! >>> >>>Anyone know why this happened or is this normal behavior form Open >>>Office. Opening this document from a LAN drive is very painful. It >>>prints great but the size is larger then expected. >>> >>>Sam. >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > George Fischer - gfischer at visi.com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- George Fischer - gfischer at visi.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list