Trying to send out a post card that is pre-cut and pre-printed on one side
(side A). It measures 5x7 inches.
On side B, we have information that is the same and static, which goes on
the left hand side. On the right hand side, we'd like to merge the
information from our Excel list address list.
On the document type prompt, I selected "envelopes", as that seemed the
closest to what we want to accomplish with our 5x7 postcard.
There doesn't seem to be a way to do this without the OfficeAssistant
warning me about "losing all the information in the rest of the document,
which it does lose. Should/can I place a text box on the right side (the
prompt won't let me place the recipient information more than 3 inches from
the left side, but our static text needs to take up half (3.5 inches from the
left.)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Personally I wouldn't use the envelope layout. Word will only allow you to
set up page sizes the printer driver will allow. Assuming the printer will
physically handle the cards, then use the nearest larger standard paper size
and make up the difference with margins.

Don't use text boxes (at least not ones that will contain fields) as the
merge will not see them. For boxed text use table cells or frames.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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The Pink Lime wrote:
Trying to send out a post card that is pre-cut and pre-printed on one
side (side A). It measures 5x7 inches.
On side B, we have information that is the same and static, which
goes on the left hand side. On the right hand side, we'd like to
merge the information from our Excel list address list.
On the document type prompt, I selected "envelopes", as that seemed
the closest to what we want to accomplish with our 5x7 postcard.
There doesn't seem to be a way to do this without the OfficeAssistant
warning me about "losing all the information in the rest of the
document, which it does lose. Should/can I place a text box on the
right side (the prompt won't let me place the recipient information
more than 3 inches from the left side, but our static text needs to
take up half (3.5 inches from the left.)

Any help is greatly appreciated.