Handwriting help!

@Danielle no problem!

The labels on Martha's website are not just a plain jane label. They wrap around the envelope. That is an opportunity to add a bit of "sophistication" and also to jazz up your envelopes a bit.

I have great handwriting, sometimes. mostly when i'm drunk strangely!!! i bought a brown caligraphy pen, and it makes my "sober" writing much prettier lol!!!

I hit enter too quickly!

the plus about the clear labels, is that if you have dark envelopes(like, i wanted to do black originally, and you can't write on those!), but with the clear labels, you can add the POP of color with addresses! originally, i had black envelopes, and used clear labels with red writing. and i bought the 2" labels, instead of the 1" ones, that way i could make the writing bigger, and it wouldn't be so hard to read! my matron had silver envelopes, and she did clear labels, with dark purple for the font. and they came out really cool!

Awwww hell Mrs P. You just reminded me my inner envelopes are black so I'll HAVE to hand address those with the metallic pens.

Http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-print-envelopes-in-word-2007.html

Carmen, I actually did exactly what dummies.com suggested to print the envelopes & it didn't work. The addresses came out sideways & it wrinkled up & basically destroyed my envelope!

Danielle this may be too late to help you but maybe it'll help someone else. What the dummies.com tutorial doesn't mention is the "Feed" attribute. As soon as you said your info came out sideways, I immediately knew what the problem was. On your printer, either on or near the paper tray, there is should be a picture of an envelope that shows you how to place the envelope in the paper tray. So in MS Word, in the envelope setup, you have to click on 'Feed' and select the image that matches your printer.

As far as the envelopes wrinkling, it's possible that you tried to feed too many through at once. It's a pain in the butt b/c you pretty much have to stand there and babysit it, but when you put in a stack of envelopes, u should be able to slide the stack in and out very easily. If it's a tight squeeze it will creat problems. They get stuck together and sometimes feed 2-3 through at once.

Thanks for the tip on the feed part! The only thing is I don't know how to avoid the wrinkling. I put only ONE envelope into it and it did it. Maybe if I try just a couple it would work. I'll have to mess around with it a bit.

Hmmm are you adjusting the paper guides to fit the size of the envelope? that helps guide the paper into the printer straight. on some printers there's one lever that slides to the right and on other printers there's two levers that slide towards the center. that's the only thing i can think of.

This may be an instance where you do spring for a calligrapher - but "spring" doesn't have to be ridiculous: you can find a local art student that will do it very reasonably.

And while it is another thing to pay for, you have to realize that you're getting a huge weight off your back, don't have to stress about the computer, it frees you up to focus on more important things, and your wrist won't fall off after doing 180 envelopes on your own!!