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template with table - need help
I've created a template consisting of a table (5 rows 2 columns). Each cell contains 3 frames - two of which are constant for all rows and one of which is for entry of variable information.
How can I use this for a multipage document and have my fixed information replicated after the first page?
(Ideally I'd like to use the template as a label template for mail merge, but can't figure out how to do this).
tnx
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 16:30 03/07/2014 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:
>On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker wrote:
>>All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page
>>style and then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that
>>all this does is to anchor the frames in the header: they can still
>>be positioned (possibly by dragging) wherever you need them on the
>>page. Since the frames are anchored in the header, they will
>>automatically reappear, along with their content, on each page. The
>>header itself does not need to encroach on your page text area, as
>>you can adjust some combination of the header height, the header
>>spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on the
>>final appearance.
>
>Clever and fiendish! It works (but see below)
>
>>When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by
>>inserting a manual page break (with no change of page style), the
>>frames will all reappear on your new page. You can create an
>>identical table around them or you can choose to copy the first
>>page to the second, amending the variable text as necessary. To
>>avoid needing to delete or replace the variable text, you could
>>choose to copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly),
>>before you added the variable text to the first (and each) page.
>
>Unfortunately, when I move to the second page and amend the text, it
>changes it on the first page also.
Aaargh! Sorry: I didn't read your original message carefully enough.
I answered as if you had two frames per cell with the constant
material, but with the variable material in the table cell but not in a frame.
Since your variable material will also be in frames, you will need
these frames to be inserted into and therefore anchored in the
individual cells, not in the header. That way they can be copied to
each new page along with the containing table.
>I'm going to have to print this a page at a time:-(
Shouldn't be necessary.
Sorry again for the confusion.
Brian Barker
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Julian Thomas <jt...@jt-mj.net>.
On 3 Jul 2014, at 16:41, Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie> wrote:
> As I recollect, you said that your frame content was invariant from page to page. If you wish it to change, or to change after a number of pages, make another page style identical in format but of different name. Header/Footer information, which your frames are by virtue of their anchoring in the Header/Footer, is a Page Style property.
Each cell has 3 frames. Two are constant everywhere; the 3rd is different for each page. This would require a different page style for each page:-(
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 16:30:55 -0400
Julian Thomas <jt...@jt-mj.net> wrote:
>
> On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page style and then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that all this does is to anchor the frames in the header: they can still be positioned (possibly by dragging) wherever you need them on the page. Since the frames are anchored in the header, they will automatically reappear, along with their content, on each page. The header itself does not need to encroach on your page text area, as you can adjust some combination of the header height, the header spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on the final appearance.
>
> Clever and fiendish! It works (but see below)
> >
> > When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by inserting a manual page break (with no change of page style), the frames will all reappear on your new page. You can create an identical table around them or you can choose to copy the first page to the second, amending the variable text as necessary. To avoid needing to delete or replace the variable text, you could choose to copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly), before you added the variable text to the first (and each) page.
>
> Unfortunately, when I move to the second page and amend the text, it changes it on the first page also. I'm going to have to print this a page at a time:-(
>
>
As I recollect, you said that your frame content was invariant from page to page. If you wish it to change, or to change after a number of pages, make another page style identical in format but of different name. Header/Footer information, which your frames are by virtue of their anchoring in the Header/Footer, is a Page Style property.
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Julian Thomas <jt...@jt-mj.net>.
On 3 Jul 2014, at 13:57, Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com> wrote:
> All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page style and then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that all this does is to anchor the frames in the header: they can still be positioned (possibly by dragging) wherever you need them on the page. Since the frames are anchored in the header, they will automatically reappear, along with their content, on each page. The header itself does not need to encroach on your page text area, as you can adjust some combination of the header height, the header spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on the final appearance.
Clever and fiendish! It works (but see below)
>
> When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by inserting a manual page break (with no change of page style), the frames will all reappear on your new page. You can create an identical table around them or you can choose to copy the first page to the second, amending the variable text as necessary. To avoid needing to delete or replace the variable text, you could choose to copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly), before you added the variable text to the first (and each) page.
Unfortunately, when I move to the second page and amend the text, it changes it on the first page also. I'm going to have to print this a page at a time:-(
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>.
At 12:13 03/07/2014 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:
>I've created a template consisting of a table (5 rows 2
>columns). Each cell contains 3 frames - two of which are constant
>for all rows and one of which is for entry of variable information.
>How can I use this for a multipage document and have my fixed
>information replicated after the first page?
All you have to do is to create a header (or footer) in your page
style and then to insert all the frames into the header. Note that
all this does is to anchor the frames in the header: they can still
be positioned (possibly by dragging) wherever you need them on the
page. Since the frames are anchored in the header, they will
automatically reappear, along with their content, on each page. The
header itself does not need to encroach on your page text area, as
you can adjust some combination of the header height, the header
spacing, and the top margin of the page to remove its effect on the
final appearance.
When you move to a new page, either by natural text flow or by
inserting a manual page break (with no change of page style), the
frames will all reappear on your new page. You can create an
identical table around them or you can choose to copy the first page
to the second, amending the variable text as necessary. To avoid
needing to delete or replace the variable text, you could choose to
copy the first page to a second (and so on, similarly), before you
added the variable text to the first (and each) page.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Regina Henschel <rb...@t-online.de>.
Hi Julian,
Have you tried the Label wizard from File > New > Labels? You need not
use the predefined labels but you can generate your own layout in the
tab Format and save it there with an own identifier.
Mail merge works so, that only one page is designed, but the mail merge
printing will generate as much pages as needed for all selected records.
Put you fixed parts directly into this page and get the variable parts
from a database.
If you struggle with the wizard, do not hesitate to ask here.
Kind regards
Regina
Julian Thomas schrieb:
> I've created a template consisting of a table (5 rows 2 columns). Each cell contains 3 frames - two of which are constant for all rows and one of which is for entry of variable information.
>
> How can I use this for a multipage document and have my fixed information replicated after the first page?
>
> (Ideally I'd like to use the template as a label template for mail merge, but can't figure out how to do this).
>
> tnx
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Re: template with table - need help
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 12:13:01 -0400
Julian Thomas <jt...@jt-mj.net> wrote:
> I've created a template consisting of a table (5 rows 2 columns). Each cell contains 3 frames - two of which are constant for all rows and one of which is for entry of variable information.
>
> How can I use this for a multipage document and have my fixed information replicated after the first page?
>
> (Ideally I'd like to use the template as a label template for mail merge, but can't figure out how to do this).
>
I think you could try this: open a new document. Define a new page style and on it place your table, with the frames anchored in the header or footer; save this file as a one page file. Each time you want a table of that sort, make a copy of this file, insert the data in your table and use /File /Insert to insert the filled in single page file. Because subsequent files using that Page Style will echo the header/footer information the frames need only be filled in on the first occurrence of the table page.
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