Appleworks Templates???

One of the biggest complaints I have about Appleworks is the lack of practical office based templates. An easy way to create a sheet of address labels. Like 33 of the same address for frequent mailing to the same address, or to be used as a return address label. A basic FAX cover sheet that is easy to add a to name and number, from name and numbeer, and comments. What I'm looking for is a way to access these things on-line, quickly and easily. The current crop of offerings in Appleworks just doesn't do the trick. I don't have time to fiddle around with going out on the internet to find programs, or shareware, and spend two hours trying to do something that takes a few minutes on a (gasp!) microsoft word doc! Any ideas? Perhaps Jobs & comany could spend a bit of time upgrading some every day stuff while they're knocking out the next gee whiz ap? Hmmm?

Hello
Apple didn't designed these kind of tools when AppleWorks was well and alive (AppleWorks is back in Appleland since about ten years). I would be surprised if they do something now that they dropped it.
For the return addresses, it's really simple.
create a database with a single field.
replicate the empty record so you have x records if your sheets contains x labels
create a label layout including nothing.
open this layout in layout mode.
insert a text frame containing the needed address.
menu Window > Page View
That's all folks.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 8 novembre 2005 11:13:10)

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