Label Types

While VSys has hundreds of built-in label types, sometimes these standard settings are not sufficient, or they need to be "tweaked" to meet specific needs.

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Steps in this task

On the Setup panel, click Label types.
Find a label which is close to your needs. If it's grayed out, it's a built-in type and cannot be edited. But you can make a copy of it that you can modify by right-clicking on the label type and selecting Copy. If Edit is present on the popup menu, you can edit the label type directly.
Define the properties of your label, then click Save.

Label properties

Field name	Description
Description	A description of the label for your own use. VSys will let you have multiple types of labels with the same name, and it won't get confused, but your staff will.
Left nudge, Top nudge	When the label is printed, these values will be used to move all printed text right/left and down/up by that distance. Negative values are allowed, they move the text left/up, where positive values move it right/down.
Label width, Label height	Size of each label itself.
Page width, Page height	Size of the physical piece of paper that the labels come on.
Left margin, Top margin	Position of the top left of the upper-left label.
Row spacing	Space between each label vertically. Leave this as 0 if the labels touch each other on the page.
Portrait	If checked, the page of labels is vertical (tall), otherwise it's horizontal (wide).
Label group	Organizes labels into groups. These groups themselves are not editable.
Label column positions	Horizontal position for each column of labels. Click on a link to edit it, or on (add) to add a new column.
Inactive	If checked, this label type will not appear when running labels or mail merges

VSys does not perform any checks on these numbers, and it will let you define label types which exceed the boundaries of the page or overlap each other.