On 26 May, 10:23, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:
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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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"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. *- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks Doug - I tried it and still cannot deliver the result. Why?
- I created a new pub document with the same dimensions etc but only
the leftmost 1/3 (ie one invite). I then tried to merge catalog with
the same doc file I was using before. (BTW it's made triply difficult
by Microsoft to get such a document - you have to find docx in an
obscure drop-down menu - so some unusual persistence is required even
to get that far).
- Now, unaccountably with this document (but not with its progenitor),
Publisher says it cannot open by docx data file.
- In total frustration I thought, why not write a docx file and work
in Word (which while often not intuitive, at least usually works) -
but lo and behold, this alleged publishing layout program cannot
actually write that layout to Word - only the TEXT part of it. Spare
me!
- Where do I go from here? Probably uninstall Publisher and try to
buy something decent. Meanwhile, set the whole thing up again from
scratch in Word.