layout? sorry don't know how to explain...please look

[mishkalex]

Ok my Mother is putting an art show together and we would like to make little placards to set under each painting that look like a business card...in fact Victorian in that template section...so I would like to put the title of the piece and the price. and I would like to be able to format like the business cards in terms of printing 8 at a time. as you can imagine i can get one done and the rest of the sheet is identical. duh, they are business cards. is there anway or a suggestion of other software. apologies in advance for my ignorance.

 

[Stroppy]

Hi there,

The Victorian templat is a nice little card isn't it? Well, here are some of my suggestions:

- In Publisher, you could do a mail merge. In brief, set up an excel spread sheet or word table with 2 columns: Title Cost. You then take your bus card, get rid of the text boxes you don't want and create the ones you do want (the format of the Business Name field is really nice for the title of the artwork); then Tools - Mailmerge - Open Data Source. Look for *.??? type of file you created, eg, .xls (pub doesn't look for excel you have to ask it to). then, back in Pub, go to your first textbox then go to Tools - MailMerge - Insert Field. And so on. It's not actually difficult so if you can't work it out I'm happy to give better instructions but need to know your version.

- Copy and paste to a word table. So, you "select all" on your Victorian Card and copy into a table that you've set up with the same sized card. Delete the things you don't want. Set up format of text boxes etc then paste to the other boxes.

- A suggestion, I see that the 4 corners of the Victorian business card are not fixed. I'd group those if I were you as they will move around if you're not careful: select them, ie, ctrl + mouse click on each of them, then right click - group. with your text boxes, you want those on top; make sure the fill colour of the text box doesn't interfere with your bus cards.

M

 

[Stroppy]

Forgot to say!! When setting up data source, the two columns need the info filled in. "Landscape" "$30" etc. When you do the mail merge, it will put all of those in the right spot.


M