I can't say I use Publisher much, but as I understand it, what you are
supposed to do actually works rather more like a Word Label merge, like
this:
a. create a publication with the page size that you want
b. use Tools-Mailings and Catalogs-Catalog Merge
c. you then (or at some point) see a floating toolbar/menu that lets
you specify how many copies of a "merge area" you want. In your case, I
would guess it is "3 down" and "1 across"
d. you then put everything that you need to repeat into that area -
merge fields, fixed text boxes, pictures etc. Publisher should
automatically display the other 2 copies of that area with data filled
in from records 2 and 3 in your data source
e. you then merge (e.g. to a new publication)

In other words, if you do it that way, you don't need Next record
type fields - unless you want to do something much more sophisticated
(which you probably can't).

Peter Jamieson

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/shop/...?productid=166

On 25/05/2010 15:52, Ricky Harris wrote:
I need to useNext Record Mergefield in Publisher 2007, but where is
it?
Somebody in another forum claims that you don't need it because
Publisher is a "layout program and not a word processor".
If true, then I have purchased a lemon of a program that will not do
the most basic of functions, laying out three invitations per A4 sheet
that are personalised using mailmerge and a database (in this case, in
Word). Oh yes, this wonderful version of Publisher will give you a
merged document - with three identical invitations on each page, and
thus three times the number of pages that you should need. And I want
to print on gold paper ...

Please folks - find me a way out of this predicament - I've got little
enough hair left as it is.

[Is anybody else who recently "up"graded to Office 2007 experiencing
what I am - that half the things that used to be simple and even
sometimes reasonably intuitive are now impossible, or take forever to
find - not just once, but every time, because they are not in
intuitive places]?