On 26 May, 02:16, Peter Jamieson
wrote:
I can't say I use Publisher much, but as I understand it, what you are
supposed to do actually works rather more like a Word Label merge, like
this:
* a. create a publication with the page size that you want
* b. use Tools-Mailings and Catalogs-Catalog Merge
* c. you then (or at some point) see a floating toolbar/menu that lets
you specify how many copies of a "merge area" you want. In your case, I
would guess it is "3 down" and "1 across"
* d. you then put everything that you need to repeat into that area -
merge fields, fixed text boxes, pictures etc. Publisher should
automatically display the other 2 copies of that area with data filled
in from records 2 and 3 in your data source
* e. you then merge (e.g. to a new publication)
In other words, if you do it that way, you don't need Next record
type fields - unless you want to do something much more sophisticated
(which you probably can't).
Peter Jamieson
http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/shop/...?productid=166
On 25/05/2010 15:52, Ricky Harris wrote:
I need to useNext Record *Mergefield in Publisher 2007, but where is
it?
Somebody in another forum claims that you don't need it because
Publisher is a "layout program and not a word processor".
If true, then I have purchased a lemon of a program that will not do
the most basic of functions, laying out three invitations per A4 sheet
that are personalised using mailmerge and a database (in this case, in
Word). *Oh yes, this wonderful version of Publisher will give you a
merged document - with three identical invitations on each page, and
thus three times the number of pages that you should need. *And I want
to print on gold paper ...
Please folks - find me a way out of this predicament - I've got little
enough hair left as it is.
[Is anybody else who recently "up"graded to Office 2007 experiencing
what I am - that half the things that used to be simple and even
sometimes reasonably intuitive are now impossible, or take forever to
find - not just once, but every time, because they are not in
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Thanks Peter
However, I can't get it to work adequately - Publisher is truly
horribly designed. eg
1) catalog? Why would I, doing invitations (or labels or whatever)
think of looking in somewhere called "Catalog" (assuming I could find
it in the first place?
2) the across/down is the reverse of intuitive for my landscape A4
3) I can put the field I want to insert in the right place/format in
the leftmost invite, but it appears horizontally shifted from the
right place in the other two invites, and there is no obvious fix. It
turns out that you can change the size and shape of that weird,
unexplained gray frame, but when I try to make it 1/3 of the width of
my page, it won't let me write three fields "down" (ie across the
page), but only 2 will "fit".
4) Manoeuvering the boxes around to get anything like what I'm trying
to end up with is a frustrating and ultimately futile waste of time -
time which I can't actually afford at present.
5) Come on Microsoft - how many years have you had to develop a
decent graphic design program? and what a woeful and useless program I
have paid for.