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Prin t postage labels using LibreOffice Writern t postage labels using LibreOffice Writer
Prin t postage labels using LibreOffice Writer
After reading y our W orkshop on LibreOffice ( www.libreoffice.org), which label t emplates you u sed i n t he
printing p ostage l abels u sing Microsoft I c ould use. Turns out LibreOffice W riter Workshop, s elect Avery A 4 i n t he
W o rd (see Issue 5 15, p age 3 8), I w ondered has a ll the f eatures a nd postage l abels y ou Brand d ropdown m enu a nd ‘J8160
if there w as a s imilar feature i n covered i n y our W orkshop – p rovided y ou Address’ or ‘L7163 Address’ in the T ype
know where t o l ook. dropdown menu (see screenshot).
Open LibreOffice, click Next, click t he Options tab a nd tick
Writer Document o n t he left to ‘Synchronize contents’. Finally , click
open LibreOffice W riter. Next, New Document a t t he bottom right
click t he File tab a t t he top l eft, to see y our l abels i n t wo columns.
move your cursor to New, t hen Highlight a ny label, then make changes
click L abels. Now t ype t he text to its font type, f ont s ize, and s o o n
you w ant i n t he ‘Label text’ using t he dropdown menus a t t he top.
field (tick t he Address b ox if To sync these text changes a cross a ll
you’re typing an address). Use labels, c lick the fl oating Synchronise
the B rand and T ype d ropdown Labels button. To print these labels,
menus t o s elect your label press C trl+P, t hen c lick OK.
templates. To select the t wo Don P almer

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SCREEN CAPTURE tab a t t he top l eft, ‘Save a s’, c hange t he
Capture s creenshots on any ‘Save a s t ype’ dropdown menu to PNG,
Windows version then rename and s ave t he screenshot
I’ve read about many screenshot on your PC.
programs in the p ages of Hugh R ogers
Computeractive. M ost o f t hese seem a
little too c omplicated f or me. Th e o ne SOUND P ROBLEMS
I’ve been u sing for m any y ears (from X P Restore a udio to your PC
onwards) is a t iny t ool c alled M WSnap About four months ago, my 10-
(www.snipca.com/26321). Install and year-old Dell desktop PC suddenly
open it. N ext, click ‘ Any r ect. Area’ o n t he lost all s ound. I c arried o ut all t he usual
left, t hen c lick the ‘ Snap any a rea’ button checks - c hecking c ables, u pdating
at the b ottom ( see s creenshot below). drivers a nd so on, b ut nothing worked.
Y o ur PC screen will appear zoomed in I e ven r eplaced t he sound c ard a nd tried
(slightly l arger) so you g et a b etter v iew a U SB plug-in sound c ard, t o n o a vail.
of things. C lick and d rag y our c ursor to Then a f ew days ago, I c ame a cross Tweaking.com for s uch a f antastic repair
select the a rea o f y our s creen t hat y ou ‘Tweaking.com W indows Repair’ program, and y ou, f or a t ruly great
want to capture ( this will open in (www.snipca.com/26322). I r emembered magazine and a ll the s uperb f ree
MWSnap). To save your file, click t he File reading a bout it in Computeractive, programs you r egularly recommend.
so I d ecided t o t ry it. Norman A C lark
Open the p rogram, c lick the ‘ Repairs -
Main’ t ab, t hen c lick the O pen R epairs iOS
button. Next, tick R estart/Shutdown Reach iPhone apps at top o f
System, then choose w hether y ou want it your screen more e asily
to restart o r s hut d own a fter the s can. I h ave s hort thumbs so I fi nd it
Finally , click S tart Repairs a t t he bottom difficult to reach i cons at the t op of
(see screenshot above r ight). my iPhone’s screen when using i t w ith
The whole s can took about three h ours, one h and. I r ecently d iscovered a u seful
most of which a ppeared t o b e fi xing feature ( called Reachability) t hat s hrinks
registry errors and r eorganising files on your iPhone screen and s lides it toward
my drive. When I s witched o n m y P C the b ottom, thereby g iving y ou easier
after the s can, m y d esktop screen came access to icons at the t op. T o u se it, s imply
on, f ollowed b y W indows’ f amiliar ‘Ding double-press the H ome b utton. Repeat
Ding Ding Ding!’ welcome s ound. this action to return your screen to normal.
I h ad my audio b ack. So I h ave t o t hank Hugh M arshall

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