While you were all on discord I was busy in the lab.
I received my little 6x10cm brown paper envelopes, all 120 of them.
Have a pack of Avery A4 label sheets, so I got cracking.
LibreOffice can do labels of course, and it had the appropriate Avery template. So in a couple clicks I could start typing all my E24 labels one by one, all 168 of them.
Problem however, is that somehow in "label" mode, LibreOffice severely restricts how I can edit the document ?!
I can't use the Tab key to switch from one label to the next... have to use the mouse.
I can't easily (with icon shortcuts) set the vertical alignment.
I can't select multiple labels/cells with the mouse, to erase them all at once, or to apply formatting options as I wish.. have to do one cell, format it, then copy/paste to each cell one by one, then edit them to modify the text. A royal PITA !!
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I also didn't find a way to make multiple pages of labels in the same document, somehow ?!
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So I could only do one page of label per document/file, so had to make 5 distinct documents to get all the labels done !
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So once all the labels from 1R to 10Meg are done, and you want to modify ANY aspect of the formatting... anything at all... well you have to redo the entire 5 documents from scratch !
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I guess I must be using it wrong... it's the first time I ever try to print labels on Libre/OpenOffice
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But if it's not me, then I guess for large quantities of labels like here, it's much more productive to just make the labels without the label assistant/module, just make a regular Word processing document, with a custom table, so at least you can use all the normal editing capabilities of a freaking Word processor...
You lose a bit of time at first to fine tune the dimensions and margins just right, but once done, you will save so much time afterward...
Anyway, that got done eventually.
I tried to DIY a little box to hold the envelopes properly. Went for the Cerebus way : a roughly OK cardboard box, then insert a spacer in it to adjust the width so it fits / holds the envelopes just right. Not too loose not too tight. Also added decade dividers like Cerebus, good idea.
Never throw anything away (apart from ancient DIN speaker plugs of course) : I made the spacer using one half of the Amazon cardboard shipping envelope that the envelopes came in. A bit of cutting and folding, some tape... hey presto, works beautifully.
Other half of the Amazon envelope was just the right size to let me cut the decade dividers. They end up sticking out just the right amount to see the label and flick through them. Beautiful.
The finished box is also just the right height to fit in my wooden drawers.
I am quite happy it turned out so well on the first attempt, quick and dirty recycling stuff on hand !
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Long term I will do a nice custom wooden box, once my garage is built and I can set up a little wood-working corner in there. In a couple years maybe, all going well. In the interim, that marvel of a cardboard box will do just fine I think !
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Of course 120 envelopes is only good for x5 E24 decades, and I am even missing one envelope : last decade I ran out of envelopes when I arrived at the 91k label, grrr..... will ask for a refund !
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So I have just ordered another lot of 120 of these envelopes. Labels of course I have printed up to 10Meg, they are all ready. I am only waiting for the envelopes. Amazon says they should arrive on Thursday. In the mean time I can start digging out all my old carbon resistors from my Racco drawers, put them in the envelopes I have available so far, while taking notes of quantities available for each value, so I know what I have, what I have not, what I need to order to complete the box.
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