Mail Merge

[Pam]

Here's my problem:

I've created a Publisher file for using Avery 5163 lables.

As I'm creating the labels, I don't use the mail merge function because I
want to see how it looks first, so I put in a dummy name for the recipieint
(Jane Doe).

When I publish to Adobe .pdf (which is how I'm going to deliver it), I see
the 10 labels just fine with Jane Doe.

Now that I'm satisifed with the look, I open my mail merge database, put in
the merge fields for Jane Doe.

But now, when I print to Adobe, I get only ONE label in the upper left. Not
the other 9.

What is wrong? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
Pam

 

[Mary Sauer]

When you design your label, is there just one label on the screen?

What version Publisher are you using?

You may have to change your registry if you need more than one page of labels
when you print to Acrobat.
Go here
The Registry Fix
for changing the Mail Merge Batch Size

http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/registryfix

 

[Pam]

Yes, Mary

Publisher 2003.

There is only 1 label on the design screen. I fill that in and then it
populates the other 9 labels when in print preview without the mail merge.

If I go to the registry (which I'm told never to do -- bad, bad things
happen there), will it still only show me 1 label on the design screen and
populare all 10 labels when printing to Adobe? Will that CHANGE what happens
when I don't have the mail merge feature on?

 

[Mary Sauer]

The print preview is a bug in Publisher, it will show all the labels being the
same.