Need help on mail merge with 4 up postcards Avery 3380

G

google42

I just upgraded from Office 2000/Win XP to Office 2007/Win Vista 64
Ultimate. I had previously created postcards using Publisher and a
mailing list (datsource) using Word and everything was fine in
Publisher 2000. The Avery postcard stock is titled 3380 (or use
template 8387) and is 4 up using landscape print. I have a deskjet
6840 that I can manually duplex on.
When I try to do this on Publisher 2007, I select File-Print Merge and
Multiple pages per sheet. It seems to know it's 4 up, that is on one
side of the paper there are 4 printable areas, but it prints on one
side:
<front><address1>
<front><address2>

I've tried selecting "two-sided printing options - two sided", I've
tried reducing margins to see if that's it, but nothing's worked.
I've selected a Publisher postcard template "Arrows", and just tried a
really basic test. The mail merge works fine. Publisher knows
there's a front and back side to this postcard. It just doesn't seem
to be able to print 4 up where on one side of the postcard stock is
all 4 fronts, and on the back are 4 different addresses.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
M

Mary Sauer

You'll save yourself a lot of grief if you setup two publications, one
publication for the merge and one for the other side. This will be fixed in the
next service pack.
 
G

google42

You'll save yourself a lot of grief if you setup two publications, one
publication for the merge and one for the other side. This will be fixed in the
next service pack.

--
Mary Sauerhttp://msauer.mvps.org/







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Thanks for the response and Happy New Year. I was able to test the
two separate publications suggestion, and use "Print multiple copies"
for the one side, and "Print multiple pages" for the merge side.

However, what I ended up doing, once I figured out what Publisher 2007
was doing, on my original publication was to "Merge to a new
publication". That new pub had pages '1', '2', '1', '2', '1', '2' and
so on for as many documents the merge produced. I then used
"Print" (there's no "Print Merge" option) and selected "Multiple Pages
per Sheet", Page range - Pages 1,3,5,7,9,11... (odd pages) landscape
and was able to print the one side. Once that was done, I manually
duplexed the printed pages, and selected "Print" with pages
2,4,6,8,10... (even pages). At least Publisher figured out the
1,2,1,2 sequence was really a 1,2,3,4 sequence (maybe this is a
defect?).

I did discover two problems with Publisher on these sequences. If I
only selected 4 pages, such as 1,3,5,7, the Print Preview showed the
correct 4 pages on one printed sheet, however after closing that
dialog, and pushing Print, the printer never printed. I had to select
1,3,5,7,9 (going over one physical sheet's worth of paper).

The other problem is in the Print dialog, Preview pane, with the radio
button "Show paper after printing". If I select landscape
orientation, the preview does not show the landscape printing
correctly. It should be rotated 90 degrees.

How would one report these as defects (given we agree they are)?

I also noticed that the Print and Print Merge dialogs have a
difference in the Page range - The Print has "Pages", the Print Merge
has "Entries". I was trying to figure out the significance if any. I
also think it would be extremely helpful to have "even" and "odd" as
choices for the range.

Thanks again for your reply and help and I look forward to the service
pack. This was my first time in the google groups and didn't realize
the group discussion was so large. The original google search only
returned a single thread of the group when you were helping another
individual.
 
C

Craig Schiller

As usual, Microsoft's KB section is completely useless, but from sifting
through the crap it seems to indicate that the only patch to Publisher
has to do with a security flaw. In addition, I have no other Office 2007
products, so a 240MB service pack appears to be a bit of overkill.
 
E

Ed Bennett

Craig said:
As usual, Microsoft's KB section is completely useless, but from sifting
through the crap it seems to indicate that the only patch to Publisher
has to do with a security flaw. In addition, I have no other Office 2007
products, so a 240MB service pack appears to be a bit of overkill.

The Office 2007 SP1 patch patches all installed Office products. If you
use Microsoft Update to run the update, it will only download the
necessary bits rather than the entire Office patch.
 
C

Craig Schiller

Ed -

Thanks for that information. But is it correct that the only update to
Publisher 2007 is a security patch? If so, I won't bother.

Craig
 
E

Ed Bennett

Craig said:
Thanks for that information. But is it correct that the only update to
Publisher 2007 is a security patch? If so, I won't bother.

No, the Office 2007 SP1 patch contains a number of tweaks to Publisher.
Nothing Earth-shattering, but noticeable if you have encountered the
affected bugs.
 

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