Creating labels with other applications; For details or installation information, see the P-touch Editor Help.; Registering and canceling the Add-In function- Page 13

Creating labels with other applications

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Creating labels with other applications

When installing the software, if you choose the Add-In function, a P-touch icon will be automatically added 
onto the Microsoft

®

 Word, Excel

®

, and Outlook

®

 toolbar. (Only if Microsoft

®

 Word, Excel

®

, Outlook

®

 are 

already installed on your computer.) The Add-In function is valid for Windows

®

 only.

In each application, by choosing the text you want to print and clicking on the P-touch icon, you can create and 
print labels quickly and easily.
Depending on the setting, the character string that is downloaded by using Add-In function will be registered to Label 
List. Label List is a database for exclusively P-touch Editor. To display Label List, click [File]-[Database]-[Label List].

For details or installation information, see the P-touch Editor Help.

Registering and canceling the Add-In function

The following is the example for Windows Vista

®

.

1

Click [Start]-[All 
Programs(Programs)]-[Brother 
P-touch]-[P-touch Tools]-[P-touch 
Editor 5.0 Add-Ins Utility].

The [Brother P-touch Add-In Settings] 
dialog box appears.

2

Click on the checkboxes for the Microsoft 
application where you would like the
P-touch Editor add-in function button to be 
installed.

Now for each Microsoft application you must select 
which version of the label creation software you 
would like to open when the P-touch Editor button 
on the tool bar is clicked.
• Express Mode

: Starts Express Mode.

• Professional Mode : Starts Professional mode.
• Print Immediately : Prints the label.

• The Add-In function supports the following applications: 

Microsoft

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 Word 2000/2002/2003/2007, Microsoft

®

 Excel

®

 2000/2002/2003/2007, and Microsoft

®

Outlook

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 2000/2002/2003/2007

• After the Add-In function is installed into Microsoft

®

 Word, 

Excel

®

, or Outlook

®

, the security dialog box may appear 

when starting these applications, depending on the 
application's security settings.

• For Microsoft

®

 Word 2007 etc., if the dialog box on right 

appears, select [Trust all documants from this publisher], 
and click [OK]. For details on security settings, see the Help 
files for the application.

• For Microsoft

®

 Word 2003 etc., check the [Always trust 

macros from this source] checkbox, and click on [Enable 
Macros].

Before running this program, close the Word, Excel

®

 and Outlook

®

 programs.