![]() If done correctly, printing your own envelopes should be exactly like printing a piece of paper. Just follow this tutorial and you’ll never have to address another envelope by hand for as long as you both shall live. Run off as many copies as you need, then re-purpose that baby to work for thank you notes, holiday cards, you name it. At $3+ an envelope, why not put your credit card away and make an envelope template (or snag our A7 envelope template for free!) that you can print at home. I hate to say it, especially since I’ve been known to dabble in calligraphy a time or two, but hiring a professional calligrapher to address your wedding invitations is such a waste of money. Wondering where to buy envelopes? We love Cards and Pockets. To download the calligraphy font we used (you’ll need this to make your envelopes look exactly like ours), scroll down to the bottom of this post and follow the links. To snag our free A7 envelope template for use in Microsoft Word, just click here. Your envelopes, when created in a document that uses this template, should now have your return address exactly where you specified.Ps. Now, when you save your document or close Word, you are asked if you want to save your changes to the template. ![]() Make sure the New Documents Based On this Template radio button is selected, at the bottom of the Modify Style dialog box.Click on OK to close the Frame dialog box. ![]() (Hint: Try setting Relative To equal to Page, and then typing values in the Position controls.) Adjust the information in the Horizontal and Vertical areas of the dialog box to reflect the position you want for the return address.Click on the Format button and choose Frame.Word displays the Modify Style dialog box. Hover the mouse pointer over the style name, and then click on the down-arrow that appears at the right side of the style name.Scroll through the list of styles until you see the Envelope Return style.Click OK to close the Style Pane Options dialog box.Using the Select Styles to Show drop-down list, choose All Styles.Word displays the Style Pane Options dialog box. Click Options at the bottom of the pane.Click the small icon at the bottom-right of the Styles group.If you want to fix this problem in other templates, you should open the template directly or create a blank document based on that template. Create a brand-new document based on the Normal template.If you want to change where the return address appears, simply change where the frame is defined to appear. The style is defined to use a frame, and that frame is defined to appear at a very specific location on the envelope. When you click on either the Print or Add to Document buttons in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box, this style is grabbed and used for the return address area itself. The style used for the return address, appropriately enough, is named Envelope Return. The Envelopes and Labels tool in Word depends on a predefined style when creating an envelope. ![]() The feature makes certain assumptions about where different parts of the envelope should be printed, but what if you want to change the positioning of the return address? Word includes an Envelopes feature that makes it pretty easy to create your own professional-looking envelopes.
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