(This help page describes the latest version of Bingo Card Printer - 3.20)
Editing Here is what the main screen of Bingo Card Printer will look like after
you have created a New project
(note: the green numbers are not
actually part of the screen, but are used to here indicates various features
on the screenshot).
The screen allows you to review and edit items in the list of bingo items
(the items that will be printed on bingo cards), as well as change the
settings that affect all cards.
The features on screen are:
If you want add an item, enter it here, then press
the Enter or Return key on the keyboard.
If you want to add many items quickly, (for example by pasting items from
another program), you can use the Add Multiple Items... option on the
Edit menu. This displays this dialog box:
Enter items, one per line, in the field provided.
If you wish to paste text from another program, while the caret is
in the entry space, press Ctrl+V. You can use this
feature to paste from a
word processor
or
spreadsheet.
In fact, this feature works particularly well with
spreadsheets
such as Excel or
OpenOffice.org's Calc,
as you can simply highlight and Copy a column of items in the spreadsheet,
and then paste it here.
You can also read a text file in using the Load File... button.
Click Cancel if you wish to close the dialog without adding
any of the items that you have entered.
Click Add to add the items from the dialog box.
If some of the items that you have entered
can not be added (for example: if they contain too many characters or are duplicates),
you will be told alerted to that fact, but given
the option to add the remaining items.
Please note: You can not add your own items if using the Free Trial version, you must
Register to use this feature.
This area shows a list of items
that you have added so far, as well as a count of the number of items.
You
can use the scrollbar to move through the items if there are more than
will fit on the screen.
If you wish to copy the current list of items to the Clipboard
(for example to paste into another program such as a
word processor
or
spreadsheet),
select Copy Item List on the Edit menu.
You can delete an item by selecting it,
and then using the Delete Item
option on the Edit menu.
(You can not delete items if using the Free Trial version, you must
Register to use this feature).
You can delete all the items using Delete All Items... on the Edit
menu.
You can change the order of the items, into a random order, using
Randomize Order on the Edit menu.
This
will affect the order
on the screen and in the preview (labelled 6
on the screenshot), but does not affect the printing
or calling.
You can sort the items into order using Sort on the Edit
menu. If all the items are numbers, they will be sorted into ascending
numerical order,
otherwise they will be sorted alphabetically.
As with Randomize Order, the Sort option
will affect the order
on the screen and in the preview (labelled 6
on the screenshot), but does not affect the printing
or calling.
The Card Size
option allows you to choose the size of bingo cards that you wish to generate.
You can choose 3 x 3, 5 x 5 or
7 x 7.
The Heading option
allows you to choose whether to place a heading on each bingo card, and what
the heading should say. This option is provided because in some variations
of the bingo game, the heading at the top of the card is used in game play.
If you check this option, whatever Heading word or phrase is drawn
such that the letters are evenly spaced out across the heading area.
The Free Space
option allows you to choose whether to play with a free space, and what
the text within the free space should say.
The Preview
shows an approximate example of what the final bingo cards will look like
(although of course the items on the cards will be shuffled around when
you print them).
The
Print Call List options allows you to choose if you wish to
print a call
list (containing the bingo items in random order, so
you can use this list when calling)
as well as the bingo cards.
The
Bingo Cards Per Page option allows you to choose how many
bingo cards should be placed on each page when you print
The
Bingo Cards to Print option allows you to choose how many bingo cards
you wish to print.
In the Free Trial version, you can choose a number between 1 and 8.
In the Registered version,
you can choose a number between 1 and 9,999.
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