Brother QL-550, QL-500 How to Use the P-touch Address Book, Starting the P-touch Address Book

Models: QL-650TD QL-550 QL-500

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How to Use the P-touch Address Book

This section describes the procedure for creating labels from contacts efficiently using the P-touch Address Book.

Starting the P-touch Address Book

1 Click [Start]-[All Programs(Programs)]- [Brother P-touch]-[P-touch Address Book 1.0] .

You can also start the P-touch Address Book using the following methods: (Only if you created the shortcut during installation)

Double-click the shortcut icon on the desktop.

Click the shortcut icon on the Quick Launcher bar.

When the P-touch Address Book is launched, the [Startup] dialog box appears, letting you make settings to create new contacts, import CSV formal data or Outlook® contacts, and so on.

2 In the [Startup] dialog box, specify how the P-touch Address Book works and

click .

The layout window appears.

When [Create a New Contact] is selected, the layout window appears.

When [Import Contacts from a CSV File] or [Import Contacts from Outlook] is selected, you can import contacts in other formats. Refer to Î"Importing the Contact Data" on page 34.

Click to open the P-touch Address Book Help files.

The P-touch Address Book Help offers detailed information on available features and explains how to use the P-touch Address Book.

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Starting the P-touch Address Book

Introduction

Creating Labels (For Windows)

Creating Labels (For Macintosh)

Appendix

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Brother QL-550, QL-500, QL-650TD appendix How to Use the P-touch Address Book, Starting the P-touch Address Book

QL-650TD, QL-550, QL-500 specifications

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