How to make a business card using MS Word. Correct design of business cards: simple rules

If you need to create a business card, or you are just starting your business, you are often faced with the question: how to make a business card yourself or where to download a program for creating business cards.

What program do you use to make a business card?

You can do it in Photoshop, Word, coreldraw or even paint. Now, in order, how to make a business card at home on your computer yourself.

We invite you to download the program for creating business cards for free. The program is very easy to use, and you can easily figure it out without outside help.

BUSINESS CARD— New fourth version of the most popular domestic program (FREE!) for making business cards VICITKA. Developer - Graphics-M Company (Moscow).

The simplest option is provided here, but by developing your own design you can easily make a beautiful business card yourself and for free. There are also many programs for these purposes. It’s worth noting - don’t forget about your photo, it can also be easily placed there, and if you, for example, are a taxi driver, then take a photo of your car and place it on your card, having previously processed it in a photo editor.

If you don’t have your own printer, you can upload a business card template to a file hosting service, or your email, then go to places where they print photos on a printer, and today they are everywhere, tell the employees where your layout is and they will quickly print it. In some cases, you may have to purchase (special) paper. They may simply not have it. This option will be cheaper than ordering everything from the company at once.

The "BUSINESS CARD" program is designed for visually creating printed forms of business cards. Thanks to the design solutions included in the program, creating a professional business card layout is not difficult. The user can easily print business cards on both an office laser and a home printer using original perforated business card paper.

The software product provides the following functions:

— entering and editing business card text;
— formatting the text of a business card;
— placement of graphic images in GIF, JPG, BMP, WMF formats on the business card field;
— loading prepared business card layouts from vector graphics programs in WMF format.
— printing business cards on a printer;
— transliteration of the company name, name, address;
— saving finished layouts in the archive;
— export/import of layouts;
— maintaining statistical reports;
— changing the color scheme of individual elements of the card text;
— downloading and cataloging personal emblems and logos;
— setting up printing on the user’s printer for printing on business card forms;

So let's get started!

Download the program to your computer

You need to go to Alt Club in order to download the program.

2. Select the “Free programs” folder

3. Next, select the “Office Applications” folder

4. In the “Office Applications” section, select the “Business Cards” program and click – Download

You can download the “Business Card” program from the official website -
Download the program "Business Card 4.1"

5. After you clicked – Download – you need to unpack and install it on your computer.

6. Select the installation file

7. Click the “Run” button

8. Preparations for installation are underway

9. To continue, click the button – “Next”

10. Accept the terms of the license agreement and click the “Next” button

11. Provide information about yourself and click “Next”

12. Specify the path where you want to install the program by clicking the “Change” button and then click the “Next” button

13. Installation process in progress

14. Installation is complete, click the “Finish” button

Creating a business card

15. Now let's create a business card. To do this, open a folder; for example, I called it “Business Cards”. Find the “vc” application and open it

16. The program opens and you begin to create your business card:

a) choose paper

b) you are provided with a catalog of images

c) choose the text design and what kind of card it will be: business card or contact card

Of course, I personally will never use Word for this. Firstly, because a Word document is not suitable for professional printing, and secondly, the program’s tools are not suitable for a graphic designer. But perhaps these facts do not bother you and you decided to make a business card yourself and print it on your home printer.

Making a business card in Word.

1. Making a background for a business card

Everything is simple here. First, create a new document, click: “insert” -> “drawing”. We choose from those available on your computer or download from the Internet.

1. Set the dimensions.

Right-click on the background image and select “size”.

I advise you to proceed from generally accepted standards and make the size 9 cm by 5 cm.

1. We place the text.

In order to position the text, we need to go: “insert -> inscription”.

The text area is highly customizable and we can see the settings options in the window below, as shown in the screenshot.

Set up the text area and enter information.

Then we remove the white background and change the color of the letters - this is done very simply.

Please note that no one will undertake to print such a product for you and the only option for you is to print on your own printer at your own peril and risk. Due to the fact that Word is not intended for these purposes at all, it is worth thinking: “is it necessary”?

Making a business card online

The need for business cards is only growing, which is why there are now a lot of online programs for creating business cards. You can also download small applications or business card templates for this purpose. In order to find the necessary editor, just enter in a search engine: “business card wizard free download” or something like that.

In this article I will look at several possible options for creating business cards online and then downloading the layout to your computer for printing.

Business card is a carrier of contact information. Business cards come in a wide variety of printing methods and materials. But there are certain standards that a business card must meet.

The business card usually contains the name of the company. Owner's first and last name. His position and contact information.
The most common business card format 90x50 mm. Less common 85x55 mm.

There are three types of business cards:

1. Personal, indicate name and telephone number. Used in informal communication and friendly acquaintance.
2. On corporate First and last names are not indicated. Write the name of the company, field of activity, list of services.
3. Business contain personal information about the owner, as well as the company name and type of activity. Used at official meetings and business negotiations.

How to do business card mockup so that it would be accepted at the printing house? Developing a layout is not cheap. After reading this article, you yourself will be able to make a professional layout in a short time in accordance with.

The layout is an electronic file made according to certain requirements and prepared for printing. To make a layout, you need to have some knowledge of design programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw. In this article I want to teach you how to create a layout yourself.

To get started, you need to download a file in which all the necessary settings are made.

Next, you need to open it using the appropriate program. Below is the Illustrator screen. The business card layout measures 94x54 mm. The extra 2 mm around the perimeter is called departures and are cut off when making business cards. Layout created in color palette.

We edit the file, changing the text, adding images. You can learn more about how to make a similar layout watch the video tutorial.

Watch the video tutorial on creating this CAFE-BAR layout:

Please note that when printing, 2 mm are cut off along the edges of the business card. You should not place important elements at the very edge. In this business card layout text (or other useful elements) should be placed 5-7 mm from the edge.

Save the business card in PDF format.

The file is ready for printing and can be sent to the printing house!

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Hello everyone, Ivan Voronin is in touch and today we will learn how to create beautiful business cards with our own hands and completely free of charge.

If you think that this is very difficult, I will hasten to please you, creating your own business card is very easy these days.
Just give me 5 minutes of your time and you will see for yourself how fast and easy it is.

How to make a business card yourself?

A small digression so that you understand even better why and what role business cards generally play. For example, you have talent or you can do something much better than others, but how many people know about it?

Most likely, people don’t even imagine or think that they can turn to you for any services. A kind of barrier appears between you and society, and as a rule, this barrier often prevents a talented person from earning money or simply helping people.

Imagine a situation when you are communicating with a potential client or just an acquaintance, you have already told him that you provide some services, but the person is in a hurry or you don’t have any time right now, and you really don’t want to lose the target client. You, most likely, say: write down my number quickly, then we’ll call you and discuss everything in detail, otherwise I have to run now, then the law of meanness comes into play and there’s nothing at hand to write on or I don’t have a pen with me, and if there is, turmoil begins and fuss, a familiar situation?…..

Now imagine your communication with the same person, but at the end of the conversation you tell him not to write down my number quickly, but take my business card, all the contact information is there, when it’s convenient for you, dial and we’ll talk. Friends, this even sounds more prestigious; when a person picks up your business card, he will see a beautiful design, will receive a summary of the services you provide, and will also choose a method of communication that is convenient for him - all these are factors that bring a person closer and closer to you.

Believe me, pieces of paper with numbers are often thrown away when cleaning the house, but a beautiful business card will most likely be left for the future, in case it comes in handy. Remember, a business card is your face, take the creation of it with complete seriousness. People will build their first impression of you based on your business card, and if it is dull and nondescript, your potential client will probably want to cooperate with you, especially if there is good competition.

So, how to create a business card yourself?

There are many different ways to create business cards; they draw in Photoshop, write in online editors, and use many different programs. For you, I have already chosen one of the highest quality, fastest and at the same time multifunctional ways to create a business card with your own hands. We will use, in my opinion, one of the best programs, which I myself use from time to time.
Its name speaks for itself – Business Card Master. It's a small app, but its features are amazing.

What can this great program do?

- create business cards

- create double-sided business cards

— has more than a hundred prepared templates in its arsenal

— contains hundreds of individual elements, pictures

- good options for formatting text and pictures

— can save your projects in the formats you need (different printing houses may require different formats)

— the ability to instantly print a business card if a printer is connected

and many more useful solutions for quickly creating a business card.

In order to download the program you will need to go to its official website
(don’t forget that all images on the site enlarge if you click on them)

At the time of writing the article, the site looked like this, perhaps something will change over time, but I don’t think that the changes will be global, so feel free to go and download. But as is customary everywhere, good things are not free, so keep in mind that you will have to buy the official application. If you are going to create business cards professionally and to order, then it is better to buy a license and enjoy the possibilities.

Once you've downloaded the program, it's time to install it:

We agree to the terms and click next again.

Choose where you want to install the program or leave it as default, click next

In this window, leave both checkboxes so that the program automatically creates a launch shortcut on the desktop and in the quick access panel, click next

Click the install button and wait for the program to install

That's it, the business card master application has been successfully installed, if you do not uncheck the Run box, the program will open immediately. I always uncheck such boxes, habit, and click finish.
A shortcut has appeared on the desktop through which you can open the program at any time

If you did everything correctly, then when you click on the icon the program will start

And here the scope of your imagination begins.

For a brief introduction to the program, watch the video on how to make a business card with your own hands, there may be sound defects when viewing from mobile phones, I recommend watching from a computer

The text editor MS Word allows you not only to view and design office documents.

Using built-in templates or regular elements on the toolbar, you can create unique business cards for yourself or an entire company.

The program contains the necessary set of parameters with which you can creatively approach the task.

After mastering all the techniques and methods, you will no longer have to use special programs or contact professional agencies to create business cards.

All actions presented in the article were performed in MS Word 2016 and 2007. All instructions are universal and are suitable for versions of the editor 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Rules for choosing backgrounds and textures

When creating your own postcards, business cards, cards, the greatest amount of time is spent on design development.

As a rule, textures, background images and additional elements take a long time to select. All of them should be harmoniously combined and complement each other.

Choosing the right background color is not about adding your favorite shade from the palette. When choosing a color, follow the general rules:

• the meaning of the shade and its psychological perception by a person;
• the audience for whom business cards are made;
• the color must be consistent with the product or activity being offered.

Since the business card is small in size, you should not use many different textures, colors and text.

The information must be presented in a concise manner and clearly reflect the name of the organization, the name of the person, the position held, the company logo, address and contact information.

Text placement and font selection

When choosing text for a business card, rely on the following recommendations:

• Don't use more than two different fonts on one business card. The inscriptions must be in the same style to attract a person’s attention;
• Use font families to intelligently match different character shapes;
• The font color should contrast well with the background shade or image;
• The size of the letters should be readable. You should use a character size of no more than 10–14 typographical points (tp).

Using standard Word templates

Each version of Word has a fairly large number of ready-made templates for creating business cards, invitations, postcards, title pages, advertising brochures and other elements.

Let's take a closer look at how to make a business card in Word using built-in templates. Open your word processor and click on the File tab. Then select "Create".

As a rule, business card designs are located throughout the entire sheet (8-10 copies each). This allows you to quickly edit all cards and save paper during printing.

Download and use ready-made templates

You can download additional Word templates that are not included in the main set of the word processor on the official Microsoft website.

Templates suitable for business cards are located in the “Cards” section.

To download ready-made business card templates, you can also use the databases of ready-made designs on the vertex42 and avery websites.

Also, users of licensed versions of MS Word can instantly access the online template database.

To do this, go to the program and at the document creation stage, select the “Cards” tab (picture below):

An Internet connection is required to perform this action. Wait a few seconds for the required designs in the selected category to load.

Now select the desired design from the list, click on it and click on the “Create” button.

To use a ready-made design from the Internet, download the template you are interested in. The downloaded file must be in .doc or .docx format and can be opened in any version of Word.

Open the document containing the template and make any necessary changes to the information contained on the business card:

1. Company name;
2. address;
3. Your full name;
4. position held;
5. contact number;
6. email address;
7. enterprise address;
8. schedule.

After editing, the document page is ready for printing.

Advice: When printing a document, some page parameters may be violated (margin boundaries, hyphens, headers and footers, etc.).

To ensure that printed business cards are completely identical to the electronic version, save the final Word document in PDF format (File ⇒ Save As ⇒ PDF Document).

The main advantage of working with templates is their versatility. They are suitable for absolutely all versions of MS Word.

Depending on the fonts installed on your computer, only some inscriptions may look different.

Using tables to create business cards

If you want to create your own business card from scratch in Word, you can use tables or create elements in Canvas mode.

Let's take a closer look at how to work with the first method in all versions of MS Word.

Instructions for Word 2010, 2013, 2016

First you need to set the appropriate document markup. To do this, click on the “Layout” tab. Select margin options. In the drop-down list, click on the “Narrow” item.

This type is best suited for creating business cards and postcards.

Now create a table (2 columns and 5 rows). To do this, on the main toolbar, go to the Insert tab and click on the Table icon.

Set the required dimension:

The created table will be the basis and outline for our business cards.

Stretch it across the entire page to look like this:

In the properties of the plate (Row and Column tabs), set the width (9 cm) and height (5 cm).

Now you need to remove the indents that are set automatically when creating the table. Their removal is necessary so that the inscriptions are uniform in each cell.

Go to the table properties. Select "Options". For all fields, set the value to “0 cm”. Save your changes.

To make the margins easier to trim after printing, make them a little lighter. To do this, go to table design mode.

In the Table Styles box, select a lighter shade for the outline.

Now let's move on to creating the text of business cards.

First of all, you need to align the characters using a ruler.

For text, you can use any tools that are available in Word (different fonts, styles, spacing between characters, etc.).

To create a background, right-click on an empty space in the cell. Open the fill creation window and select the background color you like:

To add a logo, picture, or other element to your business card, use the Insert tab and then select Shapes or Pictures.

To copy the created design to other cells, select the contents of a table row using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + C and paste it into other rows using the Ctrl + P keys.

Logos must be transferred separately for each cell. To fill the entire table at once, select all of its columns and create a single fill.

Instructions for Word 2007

To mark up the required page to accommodate 8–10 business cards in the 2007 version of Word, click on the “Page Layout” tab. Select the "Fields" icon.

In the drop-down list, click on “Narrow Margin”.

Now create a table so that there are 2 columns and 5 rows on one sheet.

Go to the Insert tab and create a table as shown in the image below:

Do the alignment. To do this, go to the table properties:

Remove padding inside table cells, as shown earlier in Figure 14.

To change the color of the borders of our table, you need to select the “Working with Tables” tab. Next, click on the “Borders” icon and set the size to 0.25 pt.

In the Pen Color window, you can change the tint of the margins.

The basis for business cards is ready. Now you can start designing the layout.

Type the required text inside the first cell and align it using a ruler (Figure 16). Select a color for the business card background (Figure 17).

Copy the created design to the remaining cells of the plate.

If you indicated the site on your business card and a hyperlink was created, be sure to delete it (select the line and press the right mouse button):