Label Manager

The Label Manager window appears when you select Utilities, Label Manager from the Polaris Shortcut Bar. It also appears automatically after a label request is generated if On demand printing is selected in Polaris Administration.

Use the Label Manager to:

• Print the labels - Select File, Print or click.
• Clear the labels - Select File, Clear.
• Save the current label setup - Select File | Save to save the labels that you see in the Label Manager. When you reopen the Label Manager, the same view appears. If you want to save the label setup in a file, select Save As.
• Save a label file - Select File | Save As, select a location for the file, and name the file. It is saved as a .dat file. You can use Save As if you want to create a set of labels, save them, and then create a different label setup in Label Manager.
• Preview the labels before printing them - Select File, Print Preview. The Print Preview window appears.
• Refresh the labels - Select File, Refresh or click
• Select the label type - Select Labels and select the label type to use.
• Change the settings for the label type - Select Tools, Label Settings and Content. The Label Configuration dialog box appears. Use the Label Configuration dialog box to make settings to the label type.
• Create a new label type - Select Tools, Design Custom Label. The Customize Label dialog box appears.
• Set the default printers for labels - Select Tools, Set Default Printers. The Set Default Printers dialog box appears. For each label type, select the down arrow in the Printer Name column, and select the printer for the label type.
• Enter or change the text of the labels - Type the text within the label borders.
• Copy text from one label to another label - Select the text to copy, right-click and select Copy.
• Paste text into a label - After copying the text, position the cursor inside the label, right-click and select Paste to paste the copied text into the label.

Note:
You can also copy and paste from another Windows application. For example, you could copy text from a Microsoft Word document into a label.

• Delete text from a label - Select the text to delete, right-click and select Delete.
• Insert a label before a selected label - Position the cursor inside the label borders, right-click, and select Insert Before. A label is inserted before the selected label.
• Insert a label after a selected label - Position the cursor inside the label borders, right-click, and select Insert After. A label is inserted before the selected label.
• Change the label font - Right-click, and select Font. The Font dialog box appears. Select the font, the font point size, and any other characteristics for the font, such as bold or italics. This changes the font for the labels in this session. If you want to change the font for the label type, select Tools, Label Settings and Content, and set the font on the Label Configuration dialog box.
• Insert diacritics or special characters - Position the cursor in label where you want to insert the characters, right-click, and select Character Map. The Character Map dialog box appears. Select the character to insert.