Problem with mail merge on a 4 sided publisher document

[Cherry T]

I have a publisher document (postcard) which prints 4 up to a page. One side
has all of the text and the other is for addressing/labels. I am trying to
mail merge the recipients for the labels. Everything seems fine until I
print preview...and all 4 images have the same person. Is there any way to
edit the card so each page prints 4 different names instead of the same name
4 times? Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks

 

[Ed Bennett]

I have a publisher document (postcard) which prints 4 up to a page.
One side has all of the text and the other is for addressing/labels.
I am trying to mail merge the recipients for the labels. Everything
seems fine until I print preview...and all 4 images have the same
person. Is there any way to edit the card so each page prints 4
different names instead of the same name 4 times?

The print preview is screwed - it pretends that the same data will print on
each card. It's lying.

(Note that the front and backsides will not have data from the same records,
if you're merging both sides of the card).

 

[Mary Sauer]

It is a bug in Publisher's print preview. Print a sample if you are undecided,
there is a option to do this on the print dialogue screen.

 

[Shelley]

I couldn't get it to print correctly either, but I finally figured it out.

Design your postcard. Do your merge. Your postcard should be two pages. One
page with the design and the other page the mailing information. The key is
in the print set-up, not the merge.

Select: "Print Merge."
Select: "print multiple pages per sheet"
Paper Size: "letter"
Orientation: "Landscape"
2-Sided Printing Options: "two-sided, flip short side"

The result is an 8 1/2 x 11 paper with two post card designs along the left
and two DIFFERENT addresses (a,b) along the right on paper side. If you flip
the paper over, like turning a page in a book, you have postcard designs
along the left again and two more different address (b,c) along the right.
When you cut them, you get 4 postcards with the same design on one side and 4
different address (a, b, c, d) on the other.

Finally success!

Shelley

 

[Mary Sauer]

Hi Shelley,
I appreciate your sharing your method with the newsgroup. The caveat is this
only works with Publisher 2007.