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MS Office Forum / Word / Page Layout / March 2005printing on postcard problem
I'm tearing my hair out over here on something that should be simple. I'm printing on 4x6 postcards, however my printer will not accept the postcards with the short edge pointing inwards. (when it feeds the cards in, it slips every time and I lose a couple of inches of print, they are glossy... with them oriented the long way, the printer has more rollers against the card and grabs them better). So, I'm trying to feed them in along the long edge. No matter how I set the page layout or the printer driver orientation, it wants to print the documents as though they were being fed in along the short edge. Basically I need to rotate everything 90 degrees. I'm using Word to do this because it's a mail merge document where I'm pulling in records from an Excel spreadsheet and have several hundred postcards to print. Thanks for any help. Make sure your setup is for Portrait with height 4" and width 6".  SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I'm tearing my hair out over here on something that should be simple. I'm > printing on 4x6 postcards, however my printer will not accept the postcards [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for any help. But then the text needs to be rotated 90 degrees as I need the text to be oriented along the long edge of the card. > Make sure your setup is for Portrait with height 4" and width 6". > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> >> Thanks for any help. Ok I think I see... Use text boxes and rotate the text should do the trick I hope!! > But then the text needs to be rotated 90 degrees as I need the text to be > oriented along [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >>> >>> Thanks for any help. I guess I didn't see. That didn't work, but I have it working now by changing around paper dimensions, which is probably exactly what you were trying to tell me to do :). > Ok I think I see... Use text boxes and rotate the text should do the trick > I hope!! [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. Yup! SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I guess I didn't see. That didn't work, but I have it working now by > changing around paper dimensions, which is [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for any help. Here's my problem. I designed a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 postcard, with two columns, one for message and one for mail merge address. I perform the merge. Now I have 400 postcards of that dimension. But I want to print out 4 at a time on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. I'm using Word 97. How do I format that? If I simply lay them side by side, the columns run over. Should I be using "Break" from the Insert tab somehow. Never have had luck with that. > Yup! > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks for any help. You need to start with the appropriate "label" definition, such as Avery 3263, which has the postcards 4-up. This is set up as a table, so be sure you have table gridlines displayed (Table | Show Gridlines) so you can see the card boundaries. You will not be able to use columns; you'll need to split each table cell into two. I would suggest that you do this *after* inserting the merge fields and propagating them to the other cards; otherwise you'll end up with merge fields in every cell, and you'll have to remove them from half of them. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. <Les Golden>; <Oak Park>; "Illinois" <Les Golden, Oak Park, Illinois@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:586D5808-08F3-4E0C-B946-FA8C35215681@microsoft.com... > Here's my problem. I designed a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 postcard, with two columns, > one for message and one for mail merge address. I perform the merge. Now I [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Thanks for any help. Dear Suzanne: Thanks for helping. nfortuately, my Word 97 lacks the 3263 form, and I've not been able to downlaod the Avery Wizard from avery.com. I tried the following two solutions. First, I constructed my postcard, complete with the merge codes without columns, and then I copied it and laid out a sheet of 4 on the standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Now of course when I do the merge I get 400 sheets each with 4 cards with the same mailing address. So the problem now is how do I get 4 different addresses per sheet. I saw a solution somewhre on your site using Publisher, but I only have Word 97. Second, i just laid out the text of my postcard 4 times, then inserted the merge codes separately. Then I merge, but the same problem occurs, 4 identical addresses on each of the 400 sheets. Thanks for your speedy reply to my first inquiry. Les Golden > You need to start with the appropriate "label" definition, such as Avery > 3263, which has the postcards 4-up. This is set up as a table, so be sure [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> Thanks for any help. I feel sure that Word 97 includes some Avery stock number for postcards if you will just look. If not, it is easy enough to define a custom label definition. To have more than one address on a page, you need to include a «Next Record» field at the end of each card. SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. <Les Golden>; <Oak Park>; "Illinois" <LesGoldenOakParkIllinois@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C153443B-42B9-4742-9EC9-52C1B111DF00@microsoft.com... > Dear Suzanne: Thanks for helping. nfortuately, my Word 97 lacks the 3263 > form, and I've not been able to downlaod the Avery Wizard from avery.com. I [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] > > > > > >>>> > > > > > >>>> Thanks for any help. With regard to the ?Next Record? field, note that this field is normally placed at the beginning of each card (or label) EXCEPT the first. If you put it at the end of each card, then omit the field from the last card or the merge will skip a record for each page. Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > I feel sure that Word 97 includes some Avery stock number for > postcards if you will just look. If not, it is easy enough to define [quoted text clipped - 118 lines] >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any help. Thanks, Graham. I knew the first part of that but not the last. It's rather illogical, isn't it? SignatureSuzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > With regard to the «Next Record» field, note that this field is normally > placed at the beginning of each card (or label) EXCEPT the first. If you put [quoted text clipped - 123 lines] > >>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any help. |
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