Place Cards using Business Card Format

[mallofan]

Do you use the label size or business size category to prepare place
cards. After the design is completed, I want to retain the design but
be able to print 10 cards to a sheet and then be able to change
information in each place card, i.e. name, table number, etc.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can design your cards then do a mail merge for the information if you put
the information into a data base or a Publisher list. What version Publisher are
you using?

Help here
Mail and catalog merge
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH062524751033.aspx

 

[mallofan]

You can design your cards then do a mail merge for the information if youput
the information into a data base or a Publisher list. What version Publisher are
you using?

Help here
Mail and catalog mergehttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH062524751033.aspx
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVPhttp://office.microsoft.com/http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com


I use publisher 2003. I had older Microsoft programs where I was able todesign a single card (Picture It Publisher Goled 2001 and Home Publishing 2000. I now have Vista so I can't use either one. However,I was able to design the card, save it as a single, then open the single change it to 10 cards and change the name. I don't want to use mail merge as I feel this is more time confusing. Hope you can help me.



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[Mary Sauer]

If you want your cards all to be different:
Arrange,
Layout guides,
Left & right margin guides, .75
Top & Bottom margin guides, .5

Grid guides tab,
2 columns
Zero spacing
5 rows
Zero spacing

 

[mallofan]

If you want your cards all to be different:
Arrange,
Layout guides,
Left & right margin guides, .75
Top & Bottom margin guides, .5

Grid guides tab,
2 columns
Zero spacing
5 rows
Zero spacing

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVPhttp://office.microsoft.com/http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com








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I don't believe setting up the layout guides as you suggested will
help me. I selected the business card blank and proceded to make up a
"place" card which contains name of organization, date of event,
person, food selection and table number. In the past I was able to
design one card and then was able to transfer this one card to a sheet
of 10 cards. At this time I could change each card for name, food and
table number. Since the names, food choices and tables are not
always the same I did not consider using mail merge. Since I used
different Microsoft Graphics programs in the past, it's possible one
of these other programs allowed me to do this but it doesn't appear as
if Publisher 2003 does. Am I correct? Or am I doing something wrong.
As stated I use Vista and it is not compatable with Home Publishing
2000 or Picture It Publishing 2001 Gold Edition.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you using Publisher now?

If you are using Publisher you can create your card using images and whatever.
You then use the merge to get the different information on each card. Publisher
has its own list generator or you can use Excel, Access, a Word Table & other
data bases.
Otherwise the setup I suggested is correct for perforated business cards. I
don't know how to do the setup in PictureIt. Word has built in templates.
--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

If you want your cards all to be different:
Arrange,
Layout guides,
Left & right margin guides, .75
Top & Bottom margin guides, .5

Grid guides tab,
2 columns
Zero spacing
5 rows
Zero spacing

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVPhttp://office.microsoft.com/http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com








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I don't believe setting up the layout guides as you suggested will
help me. I selected the business card blank and proceded to make up a
"place" card which contains name of organization, date of event,
person, food selection and table number. In the past I was able to
design one card and then was able to transfer this one card to a sheet
of 10 cards. At this time I could change each card for name, food and
table number. Since the names, food choices and tables are not
always the same I did not consider using mail merge. Since I used
different Microsoft Graphics programs in the past, it's possible one
of these other programs allowed me to do this but it doesn't appear as
if Publisher 2003 does. Am I correct? Or am I doing something wrong.
As stated I use Vista and it is not compatable with Home Publishing
2000 or Picture It Publishing 2001 Gold Edition.