I have never used Publisher before, but after spending about 5 minutes with
it, starting with a blank Landscape publication

1. Catalog is on the Insert tab
2. Just create one instance of your invitation in the area that contains
the heading Catalog Merge Area
3. Size the text box so that it replicates the required number of times
on the page. e.g. if you only want one across, drag the right boundary so
that only one across will fit on the page)


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Hope this helps.

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"Ricky Harris" wrote in message
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Thanks Peter
However, I can't get it to work adequately - Publisher is truly
horribly designed. eg
1) catalog? Why would I, doing invitations (or labels or whatever)
think of looking in somewhere called "Catalog" (assuming I could find
it in the first place?
2) the across/down is the reverse of intuitive for my landscape A4
3) I can put the field I want to insert in the right place/format in
the leftmost invite, but it appears horizontally shifted from the
right place in the other two invites, and there is no obvious fix. It
turns out that you can change the size and shape of that weird,
unexplained gray frame, but when I try to make it 1/3 of the width of
my page, it won't let me write three fields "down" (ie across the
page), but only 2 will "fit".
4) Manoeuvering the boxes around to get anything like what I'm trying
to end up with is a frustrating and ultimately futile waste of time -
time which I can't actually afford at present.
5) Come on Microsoft - how many years have you had to develop a
decent graphic design program? and what a woeful and useless program I
have paid for.