How to Make Homemade Business Postcards

Advertise by creating your own homemade business postcards

There are a variety of reasons you would make homemade business postcards. Making your own business postcards can save money versus having a printer create them. The process also allows for personalized customization and wording of the postcards. In addition, it saves time by allowing a business owner to create, print and send postcards all in the same day from the convenience of his home office.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Microsoft Word
• Printer

Instructions

1. Open Microsoft Word onto your desktop.

2. Click "Options" under the Labels dialog. How you get to the dialog will depend on which version of Word you have.

3. Click "Avery Standard" under Label Options.

4. Scroll down until you find Avery #3263 Post Card. Select this one and click "ok."

5. Click "New Document."

6. Display the table gridlines, if they aren't already, so that you can see the cell boundaries.

7. Type in information about your business into one cell. This step will differ for individual business and the purpose of the postcard.

8. Highlight or select the cell and right click your mouse to click "copy."

9. Insert your cursor into the other cells and click "paste" in each one of them.

10. Print your postcards. Print as many copies as you will need. This will also differ for each individual business and its needs.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also create postcards in Microsoft Word using premade templates.

• Add clip art to enhance your homemade business postcard.

References

• How to Create: How to Create Postcards in Word

Resources

• Microsoft Office: Templates