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Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge
installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK?
I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay
but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color
cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print
okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges?
If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished
the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List.
OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test
data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the
test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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I just did another test: if I add an extra line at the bottom or in the
middle of the address consisting of only one English letter, then all the other four or five lines of all Hebrew text print okay. However, if the extra English line is just a period or a dash, then nothing prints. It has to be a letter! Does that make sense to you? "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here
when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. 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Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift
to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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The forum does not accept attachments - unscramble Peter's e-mail address
and send it to him (ideally zipped). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. 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You would need a zip utility like WinZip. This creates a compressed version
of the file How large is the file? If it is less than a couple of mb, I suspect Peter will forgive you for sending it as it stands. From your e-mail software attach the file to your message. Most e-mail software has a paperclip icon that calls a file dialog allowing you to select the file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: Could you tell me how exactly I would go about making a zipped file and then how to send it by email. I have never done either one. I know next to nothing about computers. thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The forum does not accept attachments - unscramble Peter's e-mail address and send it to him (ideally zipped). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and
tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. 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I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and
tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. 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Could you tell me how exactly I would go about making a zipped file and then
how to send it by email. I have never done either one. I know next to nothing about computers. thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The forum does not accept attachments - unscramble Peter's e-mail address and send it to him (ideally zipped). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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How large is the file? If it is less than a couple of mb, I suspect Peter will forgive you for sending it as it stands. Correct... -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... You would need a zip utility like WinZip. This creates a compressed version of the file How large is the file? If it is less than a couple of mb, I suspect Peter will forgive you for sending it as it stands. From your e-mail software attach the file to your message. Most e-mail software has a paperclip icon that calls a file dialog allowing you to select the file. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: Could you tell me how exactly I would go about making a zipped file and then how to send it by email. I have never done either one. I know next to nothing about computers. thanks. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The forum does not accept attachments - unscramble Peter's e-mail address and send it to him (ideally zipped). -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Dr. Dave wrote: I made a test data file of three addresses (with an .mdb extension) and tried to send it to you as a file attachment to a "reply group"-email but I got the error message: "Windows Mail could not post your message. Subject ' won't print address on envelopes', Account: 'Microsoft Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '437 (648) Transfer Failed - Do Not Try Again -- The Article is too large', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 437, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9". How am I supposed to send you the data? Did you see my other reply that if I add an extra line of one English word to an all-Hebrew address, it prints the whole thing okay? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... OK, I think you've given me enough info. to try the same thing myself here when I next have a chance. If you want to send something it would actually be the data file that contains your merge data (you have to save it at some point when you create a new "address list" in Word, and in Word 2007 it will have a .mdb extension. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Since my Word 2007 is configured for Hebrew and English, I press Alt-Shift to change from one language to the other. When I send you the test data, do you just want the Hebrew addresses printed out as if I were typing an envelope on a typewriter, or do you want each bit of information (first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc) under its appropriate column heading? "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? What I reall mean is "do whatever you usually do to enter Hebrew addresses." In principle, you might think that it doesn't or shouldn't matter how you insert a character - you should end up with the same thing. But that's not necessarily the case because Word (for example) does not rely solely on the characters entered for its information about text direction. It also records directional information. I'm not a regular Hebrew user. So for example, you may have a Hebrew keyboard. I don't. That means that in order to enter Hebrew text, I either have to a. enable a Hebrew keyboard in Windows and know which keys on my QWERTY keyboard correspond to which Hebrew characters or b. use a virtual keyboard or c. emulate what you are doing by picking charcters from (say) Windows Character map one by one. d. insert test data programmatically Whatever I do, it probably isn't the same as what you do. That may mean that the data I save has differences from the data you save, and that may result in differences in the way the data is handled when we merge. FWIW I'm going to be offline for a few days now but will try to pick this up again after that. Peter Jamieson "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Excuse me again for being "computer illiterate" but when I send you the test data, do you want it to be how I enter it in the directory or how it prints in the address block? And what do you mean by the way I usually create it? I enter each field in the directory as it's labeled on top of each column. Since that's probably not what you mean, what do you mean? the Hebrew addresses are four lines, all in Hebrew, the numbers are entered in Hebrew, without changing to English. My return address is two lines of English and two lines of Hebrew (although my return address is not entered in the directory, so that might not have anything to do with the problem.) I just made a test with two lines in Hebrew and 2 lines in English for one of the addresses and another address with all lines in Hebrew. Only the mixed address printed (and correctly) but the all Hebrew address didn't print at all! Thanks for pursuing this matter with me. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. OK, that's what I needed to know. If you had used the other method there was a possibility that the method that Word uses to get the data might have got in the way. It would be pretty helpful if you could send me some test data (i.e. not real data) created the way you usually create it (because the chances that I'll enter the data the same way you do are slim). You can remove "KillMaps" from my e-mail and e-mail me some if you like. It might help to know whether your addresses are all either Hebrew characters or Latin characters, or whether some are mixed. If mixed, is Hebrew/Latin mixed within single lines or is each line a single type of text? (Actually, it isn't so much the characters as whether you are having to alter the direction of typing or not, e.g. to enter digits. If you have various mixes is there any pattern as to what prints and what does not? -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. What should I do? |
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won't print address on envelopes
OK, I was able to replicate the problem, and probably could have done so
with my own data earlier. The problem only appears when you actually print (as you say) - merge preview and print preview show all the text. However, the problems only occur when I use an ADDRESSBLOCK field (which has other problems which have nothing to do with right-to-left/left-to-right script issues). In fact, it only occurs when I use an ADDRESSBLOCK field inside the "Frame" where you are supposed to insert your address. You might find it useful to click the show/hide button on the Home panel of the ribbon when looking at what is going on - this displays paragraph marks etc., and click Alt-F9 to show the field codes Word frames are the "old" way of locating text at a particular position on the page. There is another way of doing that, which is to insert a "text box" (see the Insert panel on the ribbon) and format it so that it does not have a surround. You would need to delete the frame as well. Frames are probably used because the field codes used in Mailmerge do not always work correctly in frames (i.e. some field codes do not work at all). In this case, the situation is reversed - you can get some idea as to what Word is doing wrong if you format the frame with a border and print that. As far as I can see, the problem is related to having left-to-right (RTL) /paragraphs/ in the frame. Because ADDRESSBLOCK always seems to use LTR paragraphs when there is even a single word in "Latin" text in the address (except for the digits, which are handled differently) , mixed text addresses print OK. If the ADDRESSBLOCK field does everything you want, that's probably all you need to do, and you can probably safely ignore the rest of this essage. However, ADDRESSBLOCK does have other problems, and if you encounter them, you would need to insert individual field codes (i.e. one for the first name, one for the last name, etc.). These should work within the original frame, although you may need to format the text with the left-to-right format button so that they are actually LTR paragraphs (with the paragraph marks at the right hand end). As far as I can see, in simple cases they get the left-right/right-left text direction correct, although you might want to check that, especially if you end up using more complex field constructs. . For more info, see the section on Graham Mayor's page at http://www.gmayor.com/merge_labels_with_word_2007.htm titled "Insert the fields" There may be other ways to solve this - the trouble is that dealing with both RTL and LTR text introduces so many additional issues that it is difficult to be sure what actually works and what does not. For example, whether or not ADDRESSBLOCK excludes the country name that you specify in the addressblock dialog seems actually to depend on the language number that Word inserts rather than the country name. What's more, if I actually insert "Israel" in Hebrew text instead of "Israel" in Latin text in the "country name" part of the Addressblock field code, the Addressblock field gets really screwed up when you select it and press F9 - the hebrew text is re-inserted elsewhere in the field code, etc. etc. Peter Jamieson -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding. I didn't see your reply until just now. I finished the mail merge last week, so all the particulars aren't clear in my mind right now but if I moved the Address box section on the envelope (either to the right or to the left, I don't remember) only the first few letters of each line of the Hebrew address printed! I wound up having to enter the addresses manually and print each envelope separately. The addresses did appear in the preview of the merge, the also printed in the letters themselves. Besides being somewhat old and not having such a good memory, I am close to being computer-illiterate, so I don't really understand what you mean when you say, "using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout." I used the Mail merge Wizard and clicked on Create A New List. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... Are you getting any Hebrew text through in any of your merges? If not, what is your data source? Do you see the Hebrew text in the Address when you a. preview the merge b. and/or use print preview c. and/or output the envelopes to a new document? (FWIW it works OK here using Word 2007 SP1, Vista SP1, both set up for UK English, the default mailmerge envelope layout (which uses the Cambria font for both address boxes here, and using an Outlook contacts list as the data source (selected from Word, not starting with the Outlook Tools|Mail Merge function) with data input in Outlook using the Hebrew keyboard layout. Printing to an HP inkjet (but not the same model as yours)) -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... There's both Hebrew and English in the return address and they both print okay there! I may have to address them by hand! "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Is the Hebrew font used in the letter as well and if so, does it print OK? I have to admit though, it is not something that I have ever had anything to do with. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks for responding! My printer is HP DeskJet 3920 but it has a color cartridge installed. I'm in Israel and some of the addresses are in English and some are in Hebrew. I just realized that only the Hebrew addresses don't print, the English ones print fine. What to do? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Are you using an InkJet Printer that does not have the colour cartridge installed? Some InkJet Printers create black for the envelope address by mixing the coloured inks rather than by using the black ink cartridge. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Dr. Dave" wrote in message ... Using Vista and word 2007, I'm doing a mail merge. The letters printed okay but now, the next day when I'm trying to print the envelopes, only the return address prints but the address for the letter doesn't print. 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