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Randall don't they have a therapy centre or home for mental defectives in
your locality?
Pity, as you need one desperately.
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your locality?
Pity, as you need one desperately.
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Ron Cohen
A couple of years ago I had a customer at my print shop with the same
situation. She had a large ascii data file that needed to be formatted to
resemble the yellow pages. Actually it was a text only member listing and
the final product had inline ads, multiple columns, lots of text formatting,
etc.. I imported the ascii file to Excel for the formatting of the data -
font color, size, position. Then I brought it into Word as a table. From
there I brought it into Publisher. The interim step of using Word eliminated
the 128 record limit. As in your situation, Excel was by far the easiest
way to format the data.
Ron Cohen
situation. She had a large ascii data file that needed to be formatted to
resemble the yellow pages. Actually it was a text only member listing and
the final product had inline ads, multiple columns, lots of text formatting,
etc.. I imported the ascii file to Excel for the formatting of the data -
font color, size, position. Then I brought it into Word as a table. From
there I brought it into Publisher. The interim step of using Word eliminated
the 128 record limit. As in your situation, Excel was by far the easiest
way to format the data.
Ron Cohen
His Boy Elroy said:The department uses Excel and is used this for formatting and data, etc. Are
you talking about saving the table as text and then text-flowing in
Pulisher? Because all lines are not identical format (some have 7 fields,
some have one left aligned, some have one centered, and so on) - text & back
again is a nightmare time wise to bring formatting back. Table retains all
this formatting.
Or am I being thick? I'd really love to learn something here if you can
help. I know what a mail merge is, but I can't picture what other steps you
might mean.
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Mike Koewler
Randall,
Why don't you write the code and send it to Gates or whoever is in
charge of Pub?
Mike
Why don't you write the code and send it to Gates or whoever is in
charge of Pub?
Mike
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Ed Bennett
After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
Alternatively, write an add-in to do it
(Writing the code would be difficult - you'd have to use the same language
as Microsoft for them to get any gain out of it, and they use some sort of
C++ under VS.NET)
from Mike Koewler said:
Alternatively, write an add-in to do it
(Writing the code would be difficult - you'd have to use the same language
as Microsoft for them to get any gain out of it, and they use some sort of
C++ under VS.NET)
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Myrna Larson
Hi, Ed:
Since you mention add-ins, do you know of any web resources that give
information about how to set one up for Publisher? I have VB6.
BTW, I am cross-posting this to the programming group as well.
Myrna Larson
Since you mention add-ins, do you know of any web resources that give
information about how to set one up for Publisher? I have VB6.
BTW, I am cross-posting this to the programming group as well.
Myrna Larson