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postcards, four per page mail merge
neald8 wrote:
After reading all the posts on this, I might have found our problem. I'm merging from a Text Document and using Publisher 2007. Do I have to use MS Excel? I would love to figure this out as NO ONE in the office can! Thank you. Seeing as the solution to problems merging from Excel files is often to export a CSV (plain text, comma-separated or tab-delimited) file and merge from that, I don't see how that could be the issue. It may be a problem with the way you've set your database up, however. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
Hi Ed,
I keep having the same problem, it prints the same name on all cards, I use te prnt merge option but what this does is that the first page(four cards per page)asthe same name,the cond sheet, gets the second name on the list. thnks for your help Catalina Palma Green Guys Landscaping Inc. "Ed Bennett" wrote: jwb wrote: I'll try to the 'print merge' option. You do HAVE to use the print merge option; otherwise, you just get a publication like any other which cannot print multiple different pages per sheet (except in Publisher 2007). You can merge to a PDF printer driver, and use the PDF as your proof. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
CAT wrote:
I keep having the same problem, it prints the same name on all cards, I use te prnt merge option but what this does is that the first page(four cards per page)asthe same name,the cond sheet, gets the second name on the list. thnks for your help Did you follow the other advice typically given in this sort of thread (I can't check this thread as it's so ancient the articles have expired from the server) - make sure that when you're designing, you only see ONE card on the screen at a time, and you let Publisher do the imposition? -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
Hi Ed,
I only have one cardon the sceen, it got t form the postcard emplates,but when it ptints out it has the same name on all four. thanks "Ed Bennett" wrote: CAT wrote: I keep having the same problem, it prints the same name on all cards, I use te prnt merge option but what this does is that the first page(four cards per page)asthe same name,the cond sheet, gets the second name on the list. thnks for your help Did you follow the other advice typically given in this sort of thread (I can't check this thread as it's so ancient the articles have expired from the server) - make sure that when you're designing, you only see ONE card on the screen at a time, and you let Publisher do the imposition? -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
I Figured it ou, publishr defaults to print four copies as an initial
setting, i didn'tsee that option util just know, i just changed the settingand it now works. thanks "CAT" wrote: Hi Ed, I only have one cardon the sceen, it got t form the postcard emplates,but when it ptints out it has the same name on all four. thanks "Ed Bennett" wrote: CAT wrote: I keep having the same problem, it prints the same name on all cards, I use te prnt merge option but what this does is that the first page(four cards per page)asthe same name,the cond sheet, gets the second name on the list. thnks for your help Did you follow the other advice typically given in this sort of thread (I can't check this thread as it's so ancient the articles have expired from the server) - make sure that when you're designing, you only see ONE card on the screen at a time, and you let Publisher do the imposition? -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
CAT wrote:
I Figured it ou, publishr defaults to print four copies as an initial setting, i didn'tsee that option util just know, i just changed the settingand it now works. You're using Publisher 2007. Publisher 2007 behaves differently to all other versions, and it slipped my mind (especially as you didn't mention your version). -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://ed.mvps.org |
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postcards, four per page mail merge
I couldn't get it to print correctly either, but I finally figured it out.
Design your postcard. Do your merge. Your postcard should be two pages. One page with the design and the other page the mailing information. The key is in the print set-up, not the merge. Select: "Print Merge." Select: "print multiple pages per sheet" Paper Size: "letter" Orientation: "Landscape" 2-Sided Printing Options: "two-sided, flip short side" The result is an 8 1/2 x 11 paper with two post card designs along the left and two DIFFERENT addresses (a,b) along the right on paper side. If you flip the paper over, like turning a page in a book, you have postcard designs along the left again and two more different address (b,c) along the right. When you cut them, you get 4 postcards with the same design on one side and 4 different address (a, b, c, d) on the other. Finally success! Shelley "jwb" wrote: I've read all the threads on this, I've tried to solve it myself, but I have the SAME problem lots of others are having. When I merge my address label on the postcard, it prints with ALL four with the SAME address on the page. I've read lots of MVP responses that say the print preview is 'screwed up', and so I was optimisitic that my print would work. It didn't. Is it possible there is someother setting I have 'screwed up'? I NEED to print 800 of these address onto my sheet, 4 per page. I don't want to do labels if I can help it. Thanks for your help, I'm in a bind. |
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