How to output a a label mailmerge to a text file?

[OHMjr]

I want to provide our graphics designer with a text file that contains one
column of contact information for 250 listees (records). I am using Publisher
to perform the merge. How do I tell Publisher to create a text document with
one column of 250 records?

Owen

 

[Ed Bennett]

I want to provide our graphics designer with a text file that contains one
column of contact information for 250 listees (records). I am using Publisher
to perform the merge. How do I tell Publisher to create a text document with
one column of 250 records?

Are you using Publisher's address list to create the mail merge source?
"Using Publisher to perform" the merge implies that you're merging from
some other data source into Publisher, in which case it's more a problem
with the program creating the source data.

Publisher stores its address list data in a Microsoft Access .mdb
database in the My Data Sources folder.

 

[OHMjr]

Thanks Ed!

I'm importing the records from an .csv file created in Excel. What I want is
for Publisher (2002) to merge these records and generate a simple text file
with the values (fields) in a typical one column label format. The designer
can thus flow the file's content into columns in the directory she's
designing.

I hope this clarfies my question.

Again, thanks for your time and thoughts.

Owen

 

[Ed Bennett]

I'm importing the records from an .csv file created in Excel. What I want is
for Publisher (2002) to merge these records and generate a simple text file
with the values (fields) in a typical one column label format. The designer
can thus flow the file's content into columns in the directory she's
designing.

Publisher isn't really a data repurposing app (nor is it ANY good at
outputting text files) - you could probably merge into Word to
accomplish what you're looking for.