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.
>>>
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