Brother QL-550 - Manual (Page 59)

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Using P-touch Editor with Other Applications
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Click in Microsoft Excel’s standard toolbar.
P-touch Editor starts and the Add-In Preview window appears showing the newly created label.
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Click to print the label.
„ How Microsoft Excel data is added to the Label List
A new record is automatically created for each row selected and the text in the selected data is
added to the following fields.
• The current date is added to the Date field.
• The content of the first cell in the row is added to the Title field.
• The content of the remaining cells in the row is added to the Body field.
• If the last cell selected in the row contains numeric data and hyphens only, the content of that cell
can be added to both the Body field and the Code field.
• Refer to P-touch Editor Help for other methods of starting P-touch Editor from within Microsoft
Excel.
• An error message appears if there is no data highlighted, or if the data highlighted contains an object
not supported by P-touch Editor.
• Refer to “How Microsoft Excel data is added to the Label List” on page 55 for details of how the
selected data is automatically added to the Label List.
• Refer to Add-In Preview window toolbar on page 53 for descriptions of each button.
• When several records are selected and imported, use the Previous/Next Record buttons to preview the
label for the previous/next record.
• If you wish to import the last column of data (if numeric) into the code field, check the "Import Into
Code Field" checkbox on the "Add-Ins" tab of the Options dialog box.
• The maximum number of rows that can be selected and printed in a single print job is 500.
• When printing, the records selected to be printed will be counted from the bottom of the list to the
top. To print records 1 & 2 in a list of 10, select records 9 & 10 to be printed.
To edit or customize the text or label layout, click .
The full P-touch Editor screen appears and you can edit the label.