Dear Suzanne: Thanks for helping. nfortuately, my Word 97 lacks the 3263
form, and I've not been able to downlaod the Avery Wizard from avery.com. I
tried the following two solutions. First, I constructed my postcard,
complete with the merge codes without columns, and then I copied it and laid
out a sheet of 4 on the standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Now of course when I do
the merge I get 400 sheets each with 4 cards with the same mailing address.
So the problem now is how do I get 4 different addresses per sheet. I saw a
solution somewhre on your site using Publisher, but I only have Word 97.
Second, i just laid out the text of my postcard 4 times, then inserted the
merge codes separately. Then I merge, but the same problem occurs, 4
identical addresses on each of the 400 sheets. Thanks for your speedy reply
to my first inquiry. Les Golden

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You need to start with the appropriate "label" definition, such as Avery
3263, which has the postcards 4-up. This is set up as a table, so be sure
you have table gridlines displayed (Table | Show Gridlines) so you can see
the card boundaries. You will not be able to use columns; you'll need to
split each table cell into two. I would suggest that you do this *after*
inserting the merge fields and propagating them to the other cards;
otherwise you'll end up with merge fields in every cell, and you'll have to
remove them from half of them.

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Les Golden; Oak Park; "Illinois" Les Golden, Oak Park,
wrote in message
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Here's my problem. I designed a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 postcard, with two columns,
one for message and one for mail merge address. I perform the merge. Now
I
have 400 postcards of that dimension. But I want to print out 4 at a time
on
an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. I'm using Word 97. How do I format that? If I
simply
lay them side by side, the columns run over. Should I be using "Break"
from
the Insert tab somehow. Never have had luck with that.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Yup!

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"Rob" wrote in message
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I guess I didn't see. That didn't work, but I have it working now by
changing around paper dimensions, which is
probably exactly what you were trying to tell me to do .

"Rob" wrote in message
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Ok I think I see... Use text boxes and rotate the text should do the
trick
I hope!!

"Rob" wrote in message
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But then the text needs to be rotated 90 degrees as I need the text
to
be
oriented along
the long edge of the card.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Make sure your setup is for Portrait with height 4" and width 6".

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"Rob" wrote in message
...
I'm tearing my hair out over here on something that should be
simple.
I'm
printing on 4x6 postcards, however my printer will not accept the
postcards
with the short edge pointing inwards. (when it feeds the cards
in,
it
slips
every time and I lose a couple of inches of print, they are
glossy...
with
them oriented the long way, the printer has more rollers against
the
card
and grabs them better). So, I'm trying to feed them in along the
long
edge.

No matter how I set the page layout or the printer driver
orientation,
it
wants to print the documents as though they were being fed in
along
the
short edge. Basically I need to rotate everything 90 degrees.

I'm using Word to do this because it's a mail merge document
where
I'm
pulling in records from an Excel spreadsheet and have several
hundred
postcards to print.

Thanks for any help.