Setting up small enevelope

[emeraldgreens]

I'm trying to set-up a mail merge with a invitaion enevelope. #5.5 (4 3/8 x 5 3/4) In doing so I see Word 97 does not support this size. Any suggestions?? If so could you reply to (e-mail address removed). Thank you.

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Do the initial set-up using the mail-merge dialog, and pick a standard size
close to (or probably large than) the size you want.

Then modify the layout in File|Page Setup.

However, what works depends partly on what you printer does. You may find
for example that what actually works is specifying a Letter or A4 layout,
landscape, where you just confine the text to the area that corresponds to
an envelope-sized part of the paper, and perhaps fix the margins to match.
Difficult to predict!

--
Peter Jamieson - Word MVP

I'm trying to set-up a mail merge with a invitaion enevelope. #5.5 (4 3/8

x 5 3/4) In doing so I see Word 97 does not support this size. Any
suggestions?? If so could you reply to (e-mail address removed). Thank
you.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I'm trying to set-up a mail merge with a invitaion enevelope. #5.5 (4 3/8 x

5 3/4) In doing so I see Word 97 does not support this size.The installed printer driver determines what paper/envelope sizes are
available to you in the Word interface. Usually, the best approach to take
when a papersize is offered is NOT to set a custom paper size in File/Page
Setup (although you can try it, but my printer doesn't react kindly to it).

Instead, I take the next larger paper size and set the MARGINS such that the
actual print area is what would fit on the envelope (or whatever).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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