Member directory in booklet form: How to?

[DavidC]

I'd like to publish a membership directory in booklet form, similar to the
kind of booklet one can produce in Outlook, but with more control over the
formatting of printed items. By booklet format, I mean printing double
sided on folded sheets so the first printed page contains booklet pages
1,2,last-1,last ....second printed page is 3,4,last-3,last-2 and so on.

My member data is in an Excel file.

I understand how to set up Publisher to print in booklet format and I know
how to link to the Excel file as a merge source. I also know how to embed
dummy fields in a text box so that the merge facility knows where to paste
in the data. But I cannot figure out how to set up the document so that
publisher will automatically generate pages and fill them up with repeated
copies of the text box, 1 for each member.

Is this possible? If so, how?

 

[Mary Sauer]

What version Publisher?
If you are using 2003, the catalog merge is the way to go, assistance here
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH062524751033.aspx

 

[DavidC]

Mary Sauer wrote

What version Publisher?
If you are using 2003, the catalog merge is the way to go, assistance here
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH062524751033.aspx

Publisher 2000

 

[Mary Sauer]

You could print as a PDF...

 

[DavidC]

You could print as a PDF...

Not sure what you mean here. I know what a PDF file is, but not how to
"print as PDF".

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher will print the merge to a PDF document. At least I know it will with
versions 6 and 7. There are third party PDF writers such as,
http://www.primopdf.com/