Peter,
Thanks very much - worked fine.
Appreciate the help.
Jon
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Is this a Dymo LabelWriter?
>
> I have been able to make mine work with MailMerge. It's not actually
> significantly different from setting up any other printer to work with a
> special paper size in Word. What I had to do was
> a. go into Word File|Print and select the Dymo, then Properties|Advanced
> and set the paper size to be the label type you want. I think it may default
> to some size like A4 that you can't possibly have on a LabelWriter
> b. in the File|Print dialog, click Close.
> c. Go into File|Page Setup|Paper and select the same label size. move to
> the Margins tab and set all the margins to 0. When you click OK, the "Fix
> margins" message will show. SClick FIx and check that the ones chosen are
> usable (e.g. here it is 0.3cm at the top and 0.1cm on the other sides). If
> not usable, change them back to 0, "Ignore" instead of "Fix", and you'll
> have to click your way through the dialog boxes that appear when you
> actually merge.
> d. Word's blank document should now look more label-sized. I'd save it at
> some point, but you may need to check Printer settings again when you re-use
> it.
> e. Then instead of doing a Label merge, use a Letter merge, select your
> data source, insert your fields in the usual way (don't havea <<Next
> record>> field at the top) and you can merge 1 or more records at a time. As
> far as I know you don't get gaps, which is the nice thing about the Dymo.
>
> Peter Jamieson
>
> "jmcclain" <jmcclain[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A43AEE04-EC34-45E9-96A2-FDFDB6EBA8B3[ at ]microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to do a merge to a Dymo 30256 label to be printed on a DYMO
> >label
> > printer.
> >
> > Can someone suggest how to make this work?
> >
> > I have tried setting up a custom label, but with no success.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon
>
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