How: Multiple records on single mail merge page without label

[David]

I'm trying to create numbered tickets for a social event, and MailMerge is
trying to driving me to desperation. The tickets have graphics and the size
doesn't fit within any standard label size that I know of. What I've tried
is to construct the ticket graphics with a textboxmailmerge field
<<TicketNo>> inside each one. I have seven <<Next Record>> fields on the
sheet. What I'm trying to do is get ticekts 1 - 8 on the first page, 9 - 16
on the second, etc. What MailMerge is doing for me is giving me 8 copies of
ticket 1 on page 1, 8 copies of ticket 2 on page 2, etc.

Can you help?
Thanks in advance,
David

 

[Doug Robbins]

I am not sure what you mean by a textboxmailmergefield.

Don't use textboxes. They don't work very well with mailmerge.

Instead, create a custom lable mailmerge maindocument that contains an 8
cell table the dimensions of the cells of which are as you require them,
and insert a <<Next Record>> field in cells 2 through 8.

Alternatively, use a Catalog (or in XP and later, Directoy) type mailmerge
document in which you set up the mergefields in a one row table in the main
document. Size that row so 8 of them will fit on a sheet and then execute
the merge. In that case, you only need set up the ticket once and you do
not need any <<Next Record>> fields.

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[David]

The ticket format originally came from a PowerPoint sheet, so that's where
the textboxes came from. It was apparently those textboxes causing the
problem, because when took the mergefield out of the textbox, it worked fine.

Thanks for the help.