present invention is a template for ruling index cards preferably two templates shown generally as 10 and 20 in fig1 are used in combination for drawing a grid 70 of vertical and horizontal guide lines that are used for blocking letters on the conventional 3 u2033 u00d7 5 u2033 index cards the grid 70 enables a user to draw uniformly sized and spaced letters in the grid blocks in order to produce a neatly printed index card 50 postcard or the like template 10 is rectangular and has a series of parallel slits defined normal to the longer sides of the template 10 and extending across the face of the template 10 the slits are dimensioned so that the point of a pencil can be inserted to lightly draw a plurality of parallel vertically oriented equally spaced guide lines on the index card template 20 is also rectangular and has a series of parallel slits defined parallel to the longer sides of the template 20 and extending across the face of the template 20 the slits are dimensioned so that the point of a pencil can be inserted to lightly draw a plurality of parallel horizontally oriented equally spaced guide lines on the index card the user can then draw letters in the blocks defined by the grid 70 and erase the guide lines to produce a neatly printed index card referring to fig2 a template 10 is a relatively thin flat rectangular plate having opposing short sides 10 a and 10 c each being slightly greater than 3 u2033 long and opposing long sides 10 b and 10 d.