This page provides hints and tips to help you complete the stickers for
our Creative, Creative Parchment, Heirloom and Renaissance charts.
IMPORTANT:
Any templates are provided "as is" and without any
warranty. You use them entirely at your own risk.
We
do not provide support on how to use your Word
Processor software. If you require assistance on
using your Word Processor software you should
contact your support person or contact the supplier
of the software.
We recommend that you test print your stickers to a sheet of plain paper
to check alignment and the accuracy of the information before printing
the stickers.
To test the alignment of the stickers download the pdf template for the
sticker sheet and print it on your printer. Set Page Scaling to None in
the pdf print options before printing. You can then overprint this page with your
stickers to check that the stickers are correctly aligned within the
template boxes.
Heirloom
and Creative
Charts
38.1 x 21.2 mm stickers 65 per sheet.
Renaissance and Parchment Creative Charts
72 x 63.5 mm stickers 12 per sheet
Renaissance and Parchment Creative Charts 48.9 x 29.6 mm stickers 36 per sheet
If you want a coloured background on your stickers you should add it to
the full page of stickers and not to individual stickers. If you add the
background to individual stickers then your paper will need to be
perfectly aligned in your printer to ensure that the colour prints across the complete
sticker. Even a shift of less than 1 mm will leave a white border on
one or two edges of the sticker.
The examples below are for Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2003. If you are
using a different word processor its help system should give full
instructions.
Microsoft Word 2007
Under the Page Layout tab select Page Colour then select the
colour or fill effect that you require.
Microsoft Word 2003
Under the Format tab select Background then select the page
colour or fill effect that you require.
You can use any font that is installed on your computer but
be aware that some fonts require more space than others so you
may need to experiment.
The example shows that using a Times Roman or Arial font at 11
point will give 4 lines on the 38.1 x 21.2 sticker and that by
reducing the size to 10 point for names and 9 point for other
information you can display a total of 5 lines.
The second set of fonts are Lucida Calligraphy which requires
more space. The size required for 4 lines is 10 point. For 5
lines 9 point is required for names and 7.5 point for other
information.
You can of course use any colour for fonts.
The guidelines are a non printing outline shown in your word processor
document around each sticker. They are generally a thin blue dashed
border and if you can't see it you will need to enable the "Show
Guidelines.
The examples below are for Microsoft Word 2007 and Word 2003. If you are
using a different word processor its help system should give full
instructions.
Microsoft Word 2007
Under the Home tab select Borders then select View Guidelines.
Microsoft Word 2003
Under the Tables tab select Show Guidelines from the drop down menu
You are not limited to just typing text onto a sticker - you can also
add photographs and other graphics.
However you should not pint photographs on the transparent stickers as
photographs and most other graphics rely on a white background for the
correct rendering of colours. If you print on a transparent sticker then the graphics will show the background colour of the chart in
all the areas that should be white.
To insert a picture in Microsoft Word: -
Click where you want to insert the picture.
On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click From File.
Once you have inserted a picture in the sticker
template you can then enhance and manipulate it. The example was created
using Microsoft Word 2007 Picture Tools. If your word processor
has limited tools for enhancing pictures you can modify your
picture in a graphics editing program before inserting it.
7. Modifying Creative Parchment and Renaissance
72 x 63.5 mm Stickers For Your Information
The two example templates for the Creative Parchment and Renaissance
stickers use tables to display additional information for siblings, 2nd
marriages etc. These can be modified to suit your own information by
adding or deleting rows and changing the number of columns. You can also
change the background colour of the table and in the case of the
Creative Parchment sticker, the background colour of the page (see FAQ 2
above).
This example is for Microsoft Word 2007
Place your mouse over the table that you want to change then
Right Click. The Table menu will pop up allowing you to modify
the table to your requirement.
