how to let everyone access a custom label???

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Bryce

Hi.

I've got a Document A on the server.

I print lables from it from Person A account.

I've produced a custom lable with the Person A account to print out lables.

When Person B signs on to the computer and opens up Document A on the
server, Person B cannot use the custom lablel that Person A has made.


Question:

How can I have users share a custom made label template so they all can see
it?

For example I go to tools-letters and mailings-envelopes and lables- , click
on the Lables tab and adjust the margins on theAvery 5160 address label and
save it with a custom name. I can see it of course, but how can I have that
show up as custom in everyone's account without logging onto everyone's
account individually to set that up?

Hopefully I was clear.

Thanks.

Bryce.
 
Two issues here - either save the label document as a template in a common
workgroup templates folder or if it is a custom label in the envelope/label
wizard, save the registry entry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Custom Labels
in which the custom entry is stored and apply it as a registry patch to the
other users. (NOTE custom label definitions are only interchangeable between
the same Word version).

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Hi Bryce,

On your PC, where you already have the custom label, go to Start > Run and
enter

regedit

and press Enter. The regedit.exe program presents the registry in a tree
diagram similar to Windows Explorer's. [Caution: don't change anything while
you're in there. Many of the items in the registry are critical to your
computer's operation, and others are not so critical but can screw up
individual programs. There isn't any "are you sure" prompt, and changes are
stored immediately.]

Starting at the top of the tree, My Computer, click the plus sign next to
the appropriate icons to drill down through the diagram:

My Computer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Office
11.0
Word
Custom Labels

Click once on "Custom Labels" to select it. On the Registry menu, select
Export Registry File. Select a folder to save in, supply a name (regedit
will automatically supply an extension of ".reg"), and click the Save
button. Close regedit.

The resulting .reg file is really just a text file that you can open in
Notepad, and it contains the data for the Custom Label key. Distribute this
file to other PCs. (Note that the .reg extension may be rejected by some
email systems because of security concerns. You can usually work around that
by zipping the file.)

On the other PC, simply double-click the .reg file. By default the .reg
extension is assigned to regedit.exe, which will prompt whether you want to
add the contents of the file to the registry. Click Yes (because you know
what's in it). Then restart Word to use the custom label.
 
Wow. You guys are great. I'll follow up on this now.

Thanks.

Bryce.


Jay Freedman said:
Hi Bryce,

On your PC, where you already have the custom label, go to Start > Run and
enter

regedit

and press Enter. The regedit.exe program presents the registry in a tree
diagram similar to Windows Explorer's. [Caution: don't change anything
while
you're in there. Many of the items in the registry are critical to your
computer's operation, and others are not so critical but can screw up
individual programs. There isn't any "are you sure" prompt, and changes
are
stored immediately.]

Starting at the top of the tree, My Computer, click the plus sign next to
the appropriate icons to drill down through the diagram:

My Computer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Office
11.0
Word
Custom Labels

Click once on "Custom Labels" to select it. On the Registry menu, select
Export Registry File. Select a folder to save in, supply a name (regedit
will automatically supply an extension of ".reg"), and click the Save
button. Close regedit.

The resulting .reg file is really just a text file that you can open in
Notepad, and it contains the data for the Custom Label key. Distribute
this
file to other PCs. (Note that the .reg extension may be rejected by some
email systems because of security concerns. You can usually work around
that
by zipping the file.)

On the other PC, simply double-click the .reg file. By default the .reg
extension is assigned to regedit.exe, which will prompt whether you want
to
add the contents of the file to the registry. Click Yes (because you know
what's in it). Then restart Word to use the custom label.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
What are the steps to applying that as a registry patch?

Thanks for your help.

Bryce.
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