Start here if you're new to Labeljoy. It opens on the home screen, and from there a label is three steps away: pick the paper, put something on the label, print.

In this chapter
The home screen	Where Labeljoy starts: new and recent documents, templates, and help.
Your first label	A label from scratch, step by step: the paper, a text and a barcode, and printing it.
Labels from a spreadsheet	A different label for every row of your data: addresses, prices, product codes.
Getting help	Where to look when you're stuck - this manual, Joy, and us.

The quickest start of all is a template: pick one under Templates on the home screen, change the texts, and print. Or ask Joy, the AI assistant, in the field at the top of the home screen - "make me address labels for Avery 5160" - and change what it makes.

When you want to know more
The workspace	What's where on screen: the toolbar, the tabs, the panels and the work area.
Documents	Creating, opening, saving and protecting them.
Layout and label sets	The paper, the labels on it, and different designs in one document.
Elements	The texts, barcodes, pictures and shapes on a label.
Output	Printing, and saving as PDF or pictures.

Coming from Labeljoy 6? Labeljoy doesn't open Labeljoy 6 documents: convert them first, in Labeljoy 6, with File > Convert to Labeljoy X. What's changed most is that you work in one window, with a tab for each document, and that one element can hold a text, a barcode and a picture together - see Coming from Labeljoy 6.