WD: How to Create a Stamp Substitute on Envelopes or Postcards

ID: Q193180

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to create a stamp substitute in the upper-right corner of an envelope or postcard, such as the following: 

    ---------
   | Postage |
   |  Paid   |
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MORE INFORMATION

To create a stamp substitute, use the appropriate procedure for your version of Word.

Word 6.0

1. Open or create your envelope or postcard document.

2. On the View menu, click Toolbars. Click to select the Drawing check box, 

   and then click OK.
3. On the Drawing toolbar, click the Text Box drawing icon. 

   Click OK if you receive the following message:

      This action requires that you be in page layout view. Do you want to
      switch to page layout view now?
4. In the upper-right area of the envelope or postcard, draw a text box to 
   represent the stamp substitute.

   If desired, while the text box is still selected, click to select (or
   change) a Line Style from the Drawing toolbar.
5. Type the appropriate text into the stamp text box.

NOTE: You can adjust the position of the stamp box by selecting and dragging the text box to a new position on the envelope or postcard.

Word 5.0, 5.1

1. From the Insert menu, choose Picture and choose the New Picture 

   button.
2. Create the stamp graphic in the picture window. For best results, 
   drag the graphic to the upper-left corner of the picture window
   before you close the window. Close the Picture window to view the
   graphic in the document.
3. Select the graphic.

4. From the Format menu, choose Frame.

5. Type in the horizontal and vertical dimensions to specify where you 

   want the stamp substitute to appear on the page. Choose the
   Position button to ensure that it is where you want it. (When you
   are in print preview, if the object is not in the right place, you
   can drag it to the correct location.)

Word 4.0

1. Type the stamp substitute text in your document.

2. Select the stamp-substitute text.

3. From the Format menu, choose Position.

4. In the Horizontal and Vertical boxes, type the dimensions for where 

   you want the stamp substitute to appear on the page. Choose the
   Preview button to see that is correctly located on the page. (If
   the text is not in the correct location, you select and drag it in
   print preview.) Choose the Cancel button to exit print preview.
5. With the text still selected, choose Paragraph from the Format 
   menu. Choose the Borders button to select a paragraph border if
   you want a border around the stamp-substitute.

Word 3.x

1. Place the insertion point at the very beginning of the document and 

   press the RETURN key.
2. With the insertion point in the first line of the document, use the 
   ruler to set the left indent at 7.25 inches and the right indent at
   8.5 inches (or wider if your stamp substitute is wider than 1 inch).
3. On the ruler, select the Centered option button.

4. From the Format menu, choose Paragraph. In the Paragraph dialog 

   box, under Border, select Box.
5. Type the stamp-substitute text. To avoid hard line breaks (which 
   will break up the border), press SHIFT+RETURN after all but the
   last line.
6. If you want to have a return address printed on the envelope or 
   card, enter the return address text and select both the
   stamp-substitute paragraph and the return address and select
   Side-By-Side under Paragraph on the Format menu.
Additional query words: philatelic 
Keywords          : kbprint kbdta wordnt kbenvelope winword macword word6 word7 word95 
Version           : MACINTOSH:3.01,3.02,4.0,5.0,5.1,5.1a,6.0,6.0.1,6.0.1a; WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 13, 1999