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Complete listing of June 1996 reviews
By Hailey Lynne McKeefry
When you plunk down your $49.95 for MyProfessionalBusinessCards for Windows 95 2.0, you are investing in a veritable one-trick pony. But it performs its trick-creating professional-looking business cards-skillfully.
MPBC now has an undo/redo feature, vertical and horizontal text alignment, and a mail-merge function. Its mail-merge wizard eliminates repetitive tasks when you create one style of card for several people. And it offers OLE 2.0 support.
Select "New," and a pop-up Business Card Information window appears where you can type in vital statistics such as name, title, company name, address, phone, fax and e-mail address. The program does impose a limit on field lengths. My title was much longer, so I had to edit it manually.
The program comes with 2,565 card styles, to be exact, compared with 1,274 in the previous version. There are also 27 professionally designed layouts that can be mixed and matched with styles. Of course, you can create your own designs or choose from a collection based on preprinted stock from Avery, BeaverPrints, Paper Direct and Image Plus. It's a snap to change character and line spacing, import clip art or graphics, and draw borders, circles and lines.
I tested the program in beta; the final product's CD-ROM is expected to contain 25 fonts, 1,000 pieces of clip art and 300 sheets of preprinted stock.
MyProfessionalBusinessCards gives the impression that you hired a graphic artist without the need to pony up big bucks. And that's a neat trick.
Info File
MyProfessionalBusinessCards 2.0
Price: $49.95
Pros: Ease of use; templates
Cons: Limited text fields
Platforms: Windows 95
MySoftware Co.
415-473-3600, fax 415-325-3106
WinMag Box Score: 3.5
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