The attached page was originally set up using MS Publisher and its mail merge. This requires MS Access which my Office Small Business Edition does not have. However, MS Word can do a mail merge using input from Excel which is where my data is stored and should provide the same results as Publisher. The only merge field is shown as “Elizabeth” in the attached Word doc.
Therefore I decided to make the two-fold card using Word. Since the folds are “on center” in both directions I thought that I would set up a 4 x 4 table with appropriate dimensions to have the four resulting panels produced by centered cells.
The paper is 8.5″ x 11.0″ with all four borders set to 0.25″.
Table column widths are set to 3.75″ – 0.25″ – 0.25″ – 3.75″ so that the fold falls between the two 0.25″ columns. The total width of 8.0″ plus the margins gives 8.5″.
Table row heights are set to 5.00″ – 0.25″ – 0.25″ – 5.00″ so that the fold falls between the two 0.25″ rows. The total height of 10.5″ plus the margins gives 11.0″.
This should position the large cells on the center of their respective pages after folding and thus make it easy to do each layout. As you can see from the attachment this results in the “correct” fit for width but not for height which overflows to a second page.
The only way I can find to fit the table onto one page is to reduce the total sum of the cell heights and margins to 10.99 but that results in a second blank page being printed and the printing is off center vertically.
Can someone tell me what settings to change to achieve the results I want for one page printing?