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      "text": "# Extensions inside existing applications\n\n[All project types](../README.md) · [Shared launch](../shared/launch.md)\n\nAdd useful behavior to familiar software while keeping the person's existing documents and working habits.\n\n## Projects to build\n\n- [Move information between two Excel files](excel-workbook-transfer.md)\n- [Prepare an incoming spreadsheet](spreadsheet-import.md)\n- [See meaningful changes between spreadsheets](spreadsheet-changes.md)\n- [Assemble a recurring Word document](word-report-assembly.md)\n- [Prepare artwork for several destinations](artwork-export.md)\n- [Make printable cards from existing material](printable-cards.md)\n\nThese are instructions for projects you can build with your coding agent.\n"
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      "text": "# Make printable cards from your own material\n\nBuild an extension or reusable command in the person's document or presentation software that turns selected material into printable cards. Build it extremely well for the cards they want to use. Follow the [shared launch](../shared/launch.md) and work with their existing tools.\n\nFind out what the cards are for: vocabulary practice, classroom questions, tabletop play, or another activity. Look at their material and learn what belongs on each side. A question and answer, a word and picture, and a game item with its rules each need an appropriate layout.\n\n## Separate the material from its presentation\n\nUse the person's existing spreadsheet or another practical source for the card contents. Let them choose the entries to include and understand how the information will appear. Keep each front associated with its correct back as the selection or order changes.\n\nGive them a reusable design they can edit through their normal application. They should be able to change type, spacing, imagery, and card dimensions while retaining the underlying material. A new selection should produce another set using the same design.\n\nPreserve the wording and relationships supplied by the person. Make missing images or incomplete entries easy to identify and resolve. If they ask you to help improve the learning or game content, treat that as a separate authoring decision they can understand.\n\n## Make cards that work in the hand\n\nChoose the size and arrangement for the actual activity and the paper they intend to use. Give the content enough room to be readable. Long questions, unfamiliar scripts, and detailed illustrations deserve inspection at the size of the finished card.\n\nLet the person preview individual cards as well as a complete sheet. Show where content needs attention and make it convenient to adjust that entry or the design. Keep useful cutting guides separate from the content of the card.\n\nHandle fronts and backs as a coordinated set. Arrange the reverse side for the printing method the person will use, including the orientation and order needed for the right answer to end up behind the right question. Provide understandable guidance for that particular setup.\n\n## Produce something ready to print\n\nGenerate ordinary editable pages in the chosen application and an appropriate print-ready export. Keep the source material and reusable design available. The person can make a one-off adjustment to a generated set while understanding how to preserve it if they regenerate later.\n\nLet them save and name sets by their purpose. Record enough of the selected material and layout choices to make the set again. Adding a new entry or changing a card's design should be a normal use of the command.\n\nInstall the command through the application's appropriate extension mechanism and explain how to run it again. Use the shared launch's ownership and recovery arrangements for the material, design, and generated sets.\n\n## Make and use a set\n\nDeliver the working command with a representative selection, including entries that exercise the layout's real needs. Inspect the exported pages and check that fronts and backs correspond. Where printing is available, use a sample sheet to check size, orientation, readability, and cutting before producing the whole set.\n\nUse the cards for the intended activity. Judge whether the information is easy to see and whether the design helps the person teach, practice, or play. Improve the layout based on that use.\n\nExplain how the same material can support several designs and how a better design can improve an existing collection. Later projects can add another card format or an activity-specific set while preserving the content the person has already prepared.\n"
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