Print business cards and labels

The business card templates are page layout documents, so all text is contained in text boxes. Editing the placeholder text on one card doesn’t change the text on the other cards in the templates—you need to change the text on each card. You can speed up the process by grouping the edited text on the first card, copying it, then pasting it on each card.

1. In Pages, turn on alignment guides (choose Pages > Preferences from the Pages menu at the top of your screen, click Rulers, then select the checkboxes for alignment guides).

   Alignment guides help you place text in the same place on each card.

2. Choose File > New (from the File menu at the top of the screen), then click Stationery on the left side of the template chooser.

3. Scroll down to the Business Cards section, then double-click a business card template.

   The numbers at the bottom of each page indicate the commercial business card paper that the page is designed for. You can delete the page you don’t want to use (click , choose Show Page Thumbnails, select the page, then press Delete on your keyboard).

4. Double-click placeholder text on the first card, then type your own information.

5. Option-click all the text and graphics you edited on the card.

6. Click the Arrange tab at the top of the sidebar on the right.

   If you don’t see the sidebar, or the sidebar doesn’t have an Arrange tab, click in the toolbar.

7. Click Group at the bottom of the sidebar.

   With all text grouped, you can copy and paste without losing proper spacing and alignment.

8. Delete the text boxes on the next card.

9. Select the grouped text and graphics on the first business card, choose Edit > Copy, then choose Edit > Paste (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).

   You can use the keyboard shortcuts Command–C for copy and Command–V for paste. The pasted copy overlaps the first card slightly.

10. Drag the pasted copy to the card whose contents you deleted until the alignment guides appear.

    The alignment guides appear when the new copy is aligned exactly horizontally and vertically with the text on the other cards.

11. Delete the text on the next card, paste again, then drag the pasted copy to the empty card.

12. Continue deleting placeholder text, pasting the copy, and aligning the content until all of the cards on the page have your information.

13. Choose File > Print (from the File menu at the top of your screen), click the Printer pop-up menu and choose a printer, then click Print.

    If you didn’t delete the unwanted page from the template when you started, be sure to print just the page you edited.

If you have names and addresses in Contacts, you can select the contacts you want to print labels or envelopes for, then use the OS X print window to set the label or envelope size.

For instructions on printing contact information, do the following:

1. Open Contacts on your Mac by clicking its icon in the Dock or in Launchpad.

2. Choose Help > Contacts Help (from the Help menu at the top of your screen), and type “print labels” or “print envelopes” in the search field.

3. Click a topic in the search results.