Publisher newsletter template and mail merge

[william.pease]

There's a heck of a good 14-page tutorial on using MS. WORD and a mail
merge at:

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/lowe_word4_mail_merge.pdf

My question is: is there a similar excellent tutorial for using
PUBLISHER and mail merge? Or will that WORD tutorial also work for
PUBLISHER, substituting PUBLISHER stuff where needed? I know, that's
probably a stretch.

I publish a 6 to 10-page newsletter about three times a year for my
Rockland (Maine) High School Class of 1952, and I'd like to use a mail
merge to automatically put the 90 addresses (of surviving classmates)
on the last page of that newsletter as I print the last page of every
issue. I use a newsletter template in PUBLISHER to lay out the
newsletter and I'm very pleased with it (9 issues so far), except that
I can't quite figure out how to use the mail merge feature with it.
Everything I've read so far has been too complicated, but I found that
WORD tutorial cited above to be quite clear for that program. Is there
a similar one for PUBLISHER?

Or do you have any other advice for me regarding a mail merge with a
PUBLISHER newsletter template program?

I've been reading this Usenet group for about a year and have often
benefited greatly from the acumen of the PUBLISHER experts who freely
give of their expertise on it. I'm glad to have the opportunity to
thank all who contribute to it. Hope you can help me on this specific
topic too.

Bill Pease
Rockland High School Class of 1952 (Go, Tigers!)

 

[John Inzer]

There's a heck of a good 14-page tutorial on using MS.
WORD and a mail merge at:

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/lowe_word4_mail_merge.pdf

My question is: is there a similar excellent tutorial for
using PUBLISHER and mail merge? Or will that WORD
tutorial also work for PUBLISHER, substituting PUBLISHER
stuff where needed? I know, that's probably a stretch.

I publish a 6 to 10-page newsletter about three times a
year for my Rockland (Maine) High School Class of 1952,
and I'd like to use a mail merge to automatically put the
90 addresses (of surviving classmates) on the last page
of that newsletter as I print the last page of every
issue. I use a newsletter template in PUBLISHER to lay
out the newsletter and I'm very pleased with it (9 issues
so far), except that I can't quite figure out how to use
the mail merge feature with it. Everything I've read so
far has been too complicated, but I found that WORD
tutorial cited above to be quite clear for that program.
Is there a similar one for PUBLISHER?

Or do you have any other advice for me regarding a mail
merge with a PUBLISHER newsletter template program?

I've been reading this Usenet group for about a year and
have often benefited greatly from the acumen of the
PUBLISHER experts who freely give of their expertise on
it. I'm glad to have the opportunity to thank all who
contribute to it. Hope you can help me on this specific
topic too.

Bill Pease
Rockland High School Class of 1952 (Go, Tigers!)

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Maybe this link will be useful:

Publisher 2003 - Create a mail merge
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052584251033.aspx

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[william.pease]

Whoops, I meant to add that I'm using PUBLISHER 2002.

 

[Mary Sauer]

2002 and 2003 are about the same.

This article will be useful too
The Registry Fix
for changing the Mail Merge Batch Size
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/registryfix