>Great advice, thank you. I was able to use the custom layouts, and under
>the 'make new layout feature' in filemaker, make it on the blank layout.
>Unfortunately, the labels layout didn't allow for anyhting with only 2
>labels on a page.
>
>Anyhow, I'm able to make one label, by using the blank layout and putting in
>the mailing info from the text box. Do you know of anyway that I could make
>it put two labels on the same page, with two different people?
Remove any header and footer parts of the layout, and adjust the
height of the layout to half a page. FileMaker will put as many
records on a page as will fit, so if your layout is half a page,
you'll get two per page. More detail on working with layouts can be
found in the FileMaker user manual.
>I tried
>putting two sets of mailing info text box's in, but that just made the same
>name and address appear twice on the page. Thought maybe you or someone knew
>of another way.
>
>Many thanks,
>Matthew Albracht
>
>
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>From: "Matthew Scholtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:42 PM
>Subject: [support] Re: labels
>
>
>> You certainly can, but you'll need to do some customization.
>Specifically, you'll need to create a new layout. (If you've never done
>this before, I recommend reading through the Filemaker Pro manual, taking an
>FMP class, or doing a web tutorial. Always make a backup copy of the
>database before changing this sort of thing.)
>>
>> How to do it:
>> 1.Sign into ebase with the master password.
>> 2.Go into Layout mode
>> 3.Click on Layout>New Layout
>> 4.Choose Layout Type=Labels. If your labels are a standard Avery size,
>you should be able to choose them from a standard list which will set up
>margins, etc. for you. Otherwise you'll just have to play with them by hand
>to get them right.
>> 5.Enter the fields to appear on the labels. Easiest thing to do here
>would just be to copy the text box containing the merge fields from the
>existing Ebase labels layout. Then you can change font size, etc. to suit
>your new layout.
>>
>> Of course, once you've made the new layout, you may want to create a
>button that takes you there and allows you to print from it. This is a
>whole other ball of wax and would require some familiarity with Filemaker
>scripting. If you're not familiar with this, again you may want to take a
>class or try to get a consultant to help you. You can always ask this list
>for help as well, once you get started.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Matt
>>
>> At 05:29 AM 6/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >Is there a way, using filmaker 5 with ebase, that we can print
>specialized
>> >mailing labels? We have some larger ones that are two per page. I could
>> >not find anything in the handbooks other than 30 per page.
>> >
>> >Many thanks,
>> >Matthew Albracht
>> >
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