Create your own CD and DVD labels using free MS Word Templates

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 5:44 am

If you frequently burn CDs like me for backup or as gifts to friends, you will always feel this need to have it with a nice CD label.  With MS Word and your chosen free templates from MS Office Online, you can easily make custom CD labels, inserts, and booklets using popular templates from CD label brands like Avery.

Earlier I wrote about Dymo DisPainter, a cool inkjet CD/DVD label maker that allows you to burn your designs directly onto a CD, however, it costs quite a bit of money. If you want to create CD labels for free, read on!

To start making your own CD labels,  choose a free template from any of the available templates from MS Office Online templates:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

I put “DVD” on the search field to search for DVD covers (but you can search for “CD” or “floppy” too depending on what label you need to print):

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Note that the icons next to each items designate the appropriate MS Office application that can open that template.  In the two examples below, the first is a  an MS Publisher template and second one is an MS Word template.  If you don’t have MS Publisher but you have MS Word, get only the Word templates:

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Next, download the Word template and check if it is compatible with your MS Word version.  The “version” is shown on the download page:

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Once you click download it will prompt the user to activate an ActiveX control from Microsoft.  Just click OK to install the ActiveX control.  You will only do this on the first download.

MS Word will open after downloading is completed.  Downloading templates should be quick since they are only a few kilobytes in size.  Using MS Word, you can customize the content before printing:

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Make sure to checkout other designs for newer version of MS Word.  The newer templates for MS Word 2003 and above look better and more contemporary:

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Have fun choosing from the free online templates.  You can add your own pictures and text on them like an ordinary MS Word document.

Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done!

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5 Responses to “Create your own CD and DVD labels using free MS Word Templates”

  1. Brent said on : December 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 am

    I think the software that is being referenced is part of the Windows XP Media Center SDK. Of my three XP machines, one being Media Center, none have this software installed. Is there a link available to get this software?


  2. akishore said on : December 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Brent, it’s actually part of the Plus! Digital Media Center Edition software product. That program has been discontinued by Microsoft, so this post is really no longer applicable! Sorry about that!

    Will make sure next time to watch for outdated software. Thanks.


  3. Brick said on : May 2nd, 2010 at 12:22 am

    Like every other insturction I read on how to do this, these instructions are also simply entirely way too complex, and no where near in depth enough for someone who knows nothing about any of this to follow.

    There is always download this, download that, open this in this program…Almost none of which anyone has ever heard about and on top of that cost money!

    WTF! Will someone just post up a link to a 100% free fully usable software, then post a click this, click this click this pictorial.

    this is ridiculous how I have been trying for over a year now to produce my own lables for my own disks and every instruction fails miserably


  4. me said on : July 12th, 2010 at 11:17 am

    @ Brick:

    I really don’t see what is so difficult. The instructions seem to be self-explanatory. If you have the new Microsoft Word, click on the circle in the top left hand corner, click on “New”, and at the top will be a search bar. In the search bar, type in either “CD” or “DVD.” Once you do that, tons of different label templates will show up. Once you find the one that you like, click on it (it will appear in a box on your right hand side), then click on “download.” The template is FREE and it will automatically upload to your Microsoft Word document.

    If you have the old MS Word document, there should be a search bar somewhere in your right hand corner. In the search bar, type in either CD or DVD and tons of FREE templates will show up.


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