Okay, whoa! Let's get back to reason and cordiality here. Thank you for all
the compliments (expressed and implied). I was not, as you put it,
"stumped," and the method you propose would be what I would have suggested
if I had thought it worth the time and effort to set up (not to mention my
time and effort to describe the process). I should have known that Mike
would not have asked for a way to do this if he had not considered it worth
his time and effort.
And although Mike says he has QuickBooks, it would appear that he doesn't
want to use it for this purpose, probably because the checks he's writing
are from an account not set up in QuickBooks. But in addition to the
inherent difficulty of setting up such a form, Graham's point about the
printer's paper-handling capabilities is another deterrent. If Mike doesn't
want to accept your perfectly good suggested method and would prefer to take
umbrage and write us all off, that's his prerogative.
One factor that I do wonder about is the type of check to be printed. As
Graham says, the ordinary wallet check may be too small to be printed
successfully. What I would also be interested to know is whether there is a
standard layout for such checks. Obviously, the checks that are used with
Quicken, Money, QuickBooks, and the like are laid out in a standard form,
but I believe it is necessary to buy checks created specifically for this
purpose. Although ordinary wallet checks are all laid out the same in
general, I do not know whether the measurements are standardized, that is,
whether you could set up a form field to print on the payee line that would
exactly hit that line on checks printed by different companies. All of my
checks seem pretty standard, but they're also all from the same source and
are the no-frills checks provided at no extra charge; fancier ones might be
different, for all I know.
