How to Design Business Cards with an Avery Template
It's fairly easy to create your own business cards with Avery's easy to follow, professional templates and instructions, designed especially to work with Avery products. In no time, you can print your own business cards, designed just the way you want them, without paying a professional print shop.
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Things You'll Need
- Avery business card blanks of your choice
- Dopy of Microsoft Word installed
- Dot matrix, inkjet or laser printer
Instructions
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How To Design Business Cards With An Avery Template
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Go to an office supply store, such as Office Max or Staples, and purchase a package of blank Avery Business Cards. Be sure to take note of the design number on the front of the package, as you will need this information later on.
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Avery offers business card template designs via their website at http://www.avery.com/avery/en_us/Templates-%26-Software/Templates/Cards/Business-Cards/_/Ns=. Each template is listed along with its compatible design numbers. Choose a template that matches the number on the front of your package of Avery business cards and click on its name to go to the download page.
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Download your template, by clicking on the Download button on that page. You'll have to fill out a short contact form and choose whether or not you wish to receive future emails from Avery, in order to complete the download. Your download will start automatically, once you've submitted this form.
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Once your template is downloaded, it should open automatically in Microsoft Word. If it does not, save the file to your desktop and then double click on it to open it.
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Edit the text and images in Microsoft Word, making whatever changes you need. Be sure to save the file again so you don't lose your work.
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Place some of your Avery business card blanks into your printer's paper tray, following the guide arrows on the page. The arrows will tell you in which direction to insert the business card blanks into the paper tray. Then, just go to Microsoft Word's "file" menu, choose "print" and you're done!
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Tips & Warnings
Tip: After downloading the template, you may wish to save the file again, with a different file name. That way you'll always have a clean copy in case you make a mistake and need to start over.
