User guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- What Version 7 Users Need to Know
- Helping to Improve DYMO Products (Windows Only)
- Tour DYMO Label v.8
- Getting Started
- For Sheet Label Users
- How To...
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Printing Labels
- Designing a Layout
- Creating a New Layout
- Modifying a Sample Layout
- Saving a Layout
- Adding Design Objects
- Using Clip Art
- Adding a Screen Grab to Your Label
- Changing the Font
- Inserting a Symbol
- Aligning Text
- Creating Vertical Text
- Aligning Objects
- Rotating Objects
- Resizing Objects
- Adding a Border to an Image
- Adding a Border to a Tape Label
- Adding Shading to Objects
- Creating a Variable Text Object
- Using the Address Book
- Creating a New Address Book
- Adding an Address
- Adding an Address from a Label
- Editing an Address
- Deleting an Address
- Using Outlook Contacts
- Using the Mac Address Book
- Switching Address Books
- Searching the Address Book
- Exporting an Address Book
- Importing Data to an Address Book
- Editing Address Book Keywords (Windows Only)
- Printing Labels from Other Programs
- Customizing DYMO Label
- About Labels
- About Network Printing
- Updating the Software
- Developer and SDK Information
- Contacting DYMO
- Glossary

Designing a Layout
To add a border to a tape label
1. Choose a Tape label layout.
2.
Click on the toolbar, and then choose a border to add to the label.
Adding Shading to Objects
You can add shading to your label by changing the text and background color for the
objects on your label. You can change the text and background color for Address, Text,
Counter, Date and Time, and Circular Text objects.
To add shading to an object
1. Double-click the object that you want to add shading to.
The Object Properties dialog box appears.
2. Choose a background color for the object from the Background color list.
3. Do one of the following:
l For Windows, choose a text color for the object from the Text color list.
l For Mac, do one of the following:
l For an Address or Text object, choose a text color for the object from the Text
color list.
l For a Counter, Date and Time, or Circular Text object, click Change next to
Font, and then choose a text color for the object.
Creating a Variable Text Object
All Address objects are designed to hold information that varies from label to label. For
example, Address objects automatically display an entry that you select from the Address
Book. Also, you can automatically paste information from the clipboard directly into an
Address object.
Normally, Text and Circular Text objects can only display fixed information that you enter
directly into a Text object or into the Circular Text Properties dialog box. However, you
can make a Text or Circular Text object display variable information in the same manner as
an Address object (that is, turn a plain Text object into a "variable Text object").
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