Design a compact disc case label

Updated: 13/03/2003

How-to article

Are the CDs you burned of classroom files, student portfolios, and lesson plans hard to find because they are not clearly labeled?

Use the Compact Disc Label layout in Microsoft Office Publisher 2002 to design labels for your CD cases so that none of your disks remain unidentified. The CD label layout is the correct size, so you don't have to set the margins from scratch. Just fill in your own text, add pictures if you want, select the colors that you like, save the label, and then print it.

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ItemRequirements

Instructional Level

Intermediate user

Advanced user

School level

Elementary school (5–11 years)

Middle school (11–15 years)

High school (14–18 years)

Curriculum areas

Language arts

Mathematics

Software required

Microsoft Office Publisher 2002

Sample uses for classroom CDs

Keep student work on a CD to send home at the end of the school year. Be sure to burn a CD for yourself, too, so that you can show your students' work to next year's students and parents.

Keep a portfolio of student work for each subject area.

Back up data to a CD at the end each unit, term, and school year.

Burn a CD for special projects.

Objective

Use the Compact Disc Label layout in Microsoft Office Publisher 2002 to design a label for a CD case. Here's how:

Design a label for a CD case

1.

Start Publisher. In the list of publication designs in the New Publication pane, click Labels. In the list of Labels, click Compact Disc.

2.

Click the Compact Disc Case Liner template.

3.

Select a color scheme and then a font scheme. Close the task pane when you are finished making choices about the look of your label.

4.

The right side of the layout is the front of the label (the title of the CD). The left side is the inside label, where you can write details about the contents of the CD.
Add your own text to the front of the label and the inside. Be sure to format the text to make it look as fancy or plain as you like.

5.

Add pictures to your label, if wanted.

6.

Save your label, and then print it.

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