DesktopSupplies.com Blog!

Numbering Raffle Tickets in Microsoft Word – Mail Merge

We’ve had many people ask us how to number their raffle tickets in Microsoft word. It’s actually surprisingly simple! It’s all made possible through Word’s Mail Merge functionality.

We made a tutorial to describe how to do this. The tutorial is made with Microsoft Word 2003, but it is basically the same throughout all versions.

Check out the tutorial – Numbering Raffle Tickets in MS Word

2010 Christmas Products Now Available!

It may be early, but we’ve just added our 2010 Boxed Holiday Cards & Papers to DesktopPapers.com. This new inventory includes plenty of new holiday letterhead, envelopes, seals, and of course, hundreds of new Boxed Holiday Cards!

All holiday stationery and most boxed holiday cards are now available for purchase. So go ahead and get a head start on your Holiday Greetings. It might make your holiday that much easier!

Desktop Supplies Floating Cart Disabled

After numerous reports of customers having trouble adding items to our website’s floating cart, we have decided to disable it and go back to the normal cart. We are very sorry if anyone experienced any issues with the cart!

Also, we are in the process of tweaking the display of your shopping cart on DesktopSupplies.com. Check back soon for the updated checkout on DesktopSupplies.com

Desktop Papers Site Redesign

It’s been a long time since we blogged on here, but I can assure you, it was worth the wait.

Over the past month, we have been working on a new design for our DesktopPapers.com website. The new design was made live today around 12PM EST.

This new web design is much more appealing that our last design. We’ve added Shop By Theme sections, along with custom banners, and great product image collections. Product pages contain more info and a larger picture. They also feature an image zoom so you can see the product even better!

Check out the new DesktopPapers.com today and let us know what you think!

Printing in Microsoft Publisher

There are many great tools for creating & printing your own business cards, postcards, and more. One of the best & easiest available is Microsoft Publisher- and chances are you already have it on your computer.

Publisher comes with many predesigned templates that make it easy to create professional looking cards. They also make it easy to print your cards. By default, publisher will print 1 card to your sheet. Obviously, it is better to print more copies per sheet and, in most cases, you probably have some perforated cardstock you want to print to.

We’ve made a tutorial on how to print your cards to your cardstock. This 5 step tutorial shows you just how easy it is to print in publisher. Click the link below to view.

Printing in Microsoft Publisher Tutorial

New Image Zoom

We’ve added a new image zoom feature to our images. Basically, rather than being taken off the current page to view a larger image, the image just becomes larger on the current page you are on. We hope this eliminates confusion when viewing images.

Next up, multiple product images! Check back soon!

Checkout Redesigned

If you’ve ordered from us in the past couple of days, you may have noticed that our checkout has changed. This is just another one of the many website enhancements we are constantly adding.

Our old checkout area used to look nothing like our website and may have confused customers. Now, we’ve made it very similar to our website- making our customers more comfortable checking out with us.

Keep checking back here for more information about our new website enhancements. There are still a lot more to come!

Facebook Integration

To make our website more socially active, we’ve integrated Facebook “Like” buttons and comment boxes on all our pages! Now, you can like a product or share your comments on it!

Liking the product will share it with your Facebook friends… spreading the word about our great products & services. Commenting on our pages will not only share the information with your Facebook friends, but rather with our entire online community! Finally, all the social action on our website will be reported to our homepage activity feed- located at the bottom of our home page!

Help us out! Head over to Desktop Supplies and start liking and commenting on our pages today!

New! – Clear Plastic Envelopes

New from Desktop Supplies – Clear Plastic Envelopes!

We are now offering Clear Plastic Envelopes for greeting cards, invitations, etc. These clear plastic envelopes work great as a package for your cards or as protection! The clear plastic envelopes also feature a convenient thin peel & seal adhesive for sealing.

Currently, we have clear plastic envelopes available in the A7 and A2 size. Each size is available in 100 envelope packs only.

Accompany your cards or invitations with this great product today!

Postal Tray Tags Stock

New from Desktop Publishing Supplies – Postal Tray Tags Stock!

If you have a mailing department or postal trays, you will love our new Postal Tray Tags. These postal tray tags come microperforated on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet so you can print your tags and slide them to the postal tray tag slots. Postal Tray Tags are created to fit your postal tray tag slot. Each postal tray tags measures 1 15/16″ x 3 1/4″- the perfect size for postal tray tag slots!

Currently, we offer these postal tray tags on a 65lb White Cover (176 gsm) cardstock. Postal Tray Tag stock comes 10 postal tray tags per 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet. Inkjet & Laser Compatible. Microperforated for easy separation & cleaner edges!