{"id":14,"date":"2012-04-18T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mysysltd.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:32:58","slug":"neat-labels-brother-pt-1230pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Neat Labels &#8211; Brother PT-1230PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most people will agree that a folder or a tab looks better with a neatly\u00a0printed\u00a0label however sometimes making them is a chore.\u00a0Grab a label sheet, find the matching template in Word, fill it in and then print.\u00a0 Not too bad if you are doing many at once but you probably won&#8217;t do it for one.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another option is a Brother or Dymo labeller with a keyboard.\u00a0 These are great but can you be more efficient?\u00a0 I find that I&#8217;m often retyping something that is already on my computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this Brother labeler on sale at Staples and bought it because it said that it didn&#8217;t\u00a0need any software installed on the computer to use.\u00a0 Sure enough it didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 When you plug the unit into your USB port you see a new removable drive that has a program you can run and quickly type labels.\u00a0 This makes\u00a0it handy device to have with me when I&#8217;m at different client sites.<\/p>\n<p>While this is\u00a0great,\u00a0after a little\u00a0investigation I realized that the real magic occurs when you go to the Brother website and download their P-Touch software and install that.\u00a0 After all if you are using your main computer why not have all the best features available.<\/p>\n<p>The software adds itself to MS Word, Excel and Outlook.\u00a0 You end up with a new menu and toolbar entry that let&#8217;s you print a quick label from text in those programs &#8211; no retyping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think most people will agree that a folder or a tab looks better with a neatly\u00a0printed\u00a0label however sometimes making them is a chore.\u00a0Grab a label sheet, find the matching template in Word, fill it in and then print.\u00a0 Not too bad if you are doing many at once but you probably won&#8217;t do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-office","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}