Mail Merge for Coupons

[John]

How can I tell Word to advance to the next record when I am trying to print 4
coupons per page? Because I have 4 coupons per page, it prints 4 coupons of
the same name. I don't want to waste paper by putting one coupon per page.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

How can I tell Word to advance to the next record when I am trying to print 4
coupons per page? Because I have 4 coupons per page, it prints 4 coupons of
the same name. I don't want to waste paper by putting one coupon per page.

Carefully position the cursor at the front of label 2 (then 3, then 4) and
insert a NEXT Word field. (There's a button on the mail merge toolbar with a
list of "Word fields".)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[John]

Cindy,

YOU ROCK!

Thanks very much.

John

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

Carefully position the cursor at the front of label 2 (then 3, then 4) and
insert a NEXT Word field. (There's a button on the mail merge toolbar with a
list of "Word fields".)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)


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[John]

Cindy,

Thanks again for your help. I tried it but it tells me that I can't use the
next record etc. fields in header, footer, or some other situations I
obviously have.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again.
John

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

You need to avoid those situations.

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

I tried it but it tells me that I can't use the
next record etc. fields in header, footer, or some other situations I
obviously have.

(I'm laughing at Doug Robbins' response to this!)

"What he said". But can you explain why you might want to put anything
in the labels into a header/footer?

Why it won't work: the header/footer is valid for the entire page (at
the very least). How should Word know from which record it should
display the information in a header/footer? There are tricks, but I have
to know exactly what you have in mind.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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