[donal m]

[Peter Jamieson]

I guess you need something like Graham Mayor's page at

http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm

but the unnecessary minimalism of your message makes it pretty difficult to
tell. What's wrong with spelling out what you want?

Peter Jamieson
"donal m" donal wrote in message
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[donal m[_2_]]

Peter,
I basically want to have name tags that have a corresponding picture of the
person on the name tag. I have the pictures as jpeg files. I am using an
excel worksheet as my data source. I want to be able to use mail merge to
match the name to the picture via using a word field to link the name to the
relevent picture using a link in the excel data source file to link to the
relevent jpeg file or what ever way works.
I am using word 2007, used to have word 2003 and failed to get that to do it
for me

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I guess you need something like Graham Mayor's page at

http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm

but the unnecessary minimalism of your message makes it pretty difficult to
tell. What's wrong with spelling out what you want?

Peter Jamieson
"donal m" donal wrote in message
...

[Peter Jamieson]

Donal,

As far as I know there are no new features in Word 2007 that would make this
kind of merge any easier.

The main way to do this kind of thing in Word 2003 was to insert a nested
INCLUDEPICTURE field on each label, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c::\\mypictures\\{ MERGEFIELD picturename }.jpg" }

Then you had to merge to a new document, use ctrl-A to select the document
and F9 to update all the images.

The trouble is that you get very little control over the layout, especially
if your images are different sizes. I suspect Graham's web site has the best
info. you will find about how to do image layout within a label merge.

How many of these do you need to produce, and how often do you need to do
it?

Peter Jamieson

"donal m" wrote in message
...
Peter,
I basically want to have name tags that have a corresponding picture of
the
person on the name tag. I have the pictures as jpeg files. I am using an
excel worksheet as my data source. I want to be able to use mail merge to
match the name to the picture via using a word field to link the name to
the
relevent picture using a link in the excel data source file to link to the
relevent jpeg file or what ever way works.
I am using word 2007, used to have word 2003 and failed to get that to do
it
for me

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I guess you need something like Graham Mayor's page at

http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm

but the unnecessary minimalism of your message makes it pretty difficult
to
tell. What's wrong with spelling out what you want?

Peter Jamieson
"donal m" donal wrote in message
...

[Graham Mayor]

Try also http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Peter Jamieson wrote:
Donal,

As far as I know there are no new features in Word 2007 that would
make this kind of merge any easier.

The main way to do this kind of thing in Word 2003 was to insert a
nested INCLUDEPICTURE field on each label, e.g.

{ INCLUDEPICTURE "c::\\mypictures\\{ MERGEFIELD picturename }.jpg" }

Then you had to merge to a new document, use ctrl-A to select the
document and F9 to update all the images.

The trouble is that you get very little control over the layout,
especially if your images are different sizes. I suspect Graham's web
site has the best info. you will find about how to do image layout
within a label merge.
How many of these do you need to produce, and how often do you need
to do it?

Peter Jamieson

"donal m" wrote in message
...
Peter,
I basically want to have name tags that have a corresponding picture
of the
person on the name tag. I have the pictures as jpeg files. I am
using an excel worksheet as my data source. I want to be able to use
mail merge to match the name to the picture via using a word field
to link the name to the
relevent picture using a link in the excel data source file to link
to the relevent jpeg file or what ever way works.
I am using word 2007, used to have word 2003 and failed to get that
to do it
for me

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

I guess you need something like Graham Mayor's page at

http://www.gmayor.com/graphics_on_labels.htm

but the unnecessary minimalism of your message makes it pretty
difficult to
tell. What's wrong with spelling out what you want?

Peter Jamieson
"donal m" donal wrote in message
...