> don't fully understand them. please help, i'm trying to do my > christmas card list.
I feel your pain - I've been running into some bugs (with 1.9 something and with 2.0) in making labels. As long as you aren't using conditional text, however, you should be OK. First, select File -> New -> Labels. Pick the type of label you're printing, and then pick the "Options" tab. Select "Synchronize contents", so that the FORMAT of each label matches the first. Then, under the "Labels" tab, select your database and table. Use the "Database field" dropdown to move your fields into the text box to the left, to get the layout of the label correct. Hit "New Document" when finished. After that, make any changes needed to the first label. Once the first label looks the way you want it to, move to the end and select Insert -> Fields -> Other, select "Database", and under type, select "Next Record". Hit "Insert" then "Close". Now, click the "Synchronize Labels" button in the small window to make all the labels match the first. Now, select View -> Data Sources, and pick the database you want to merge from. Select the records you want to print labels for (probably all of them), and hit the button with the large green box between black lines (Tooltip: "Data to Fields"). That will merge all your labels and make them all different. The biggest problem with this is that you can only print a page full of labels at a time. It's hugely annoying. If your list spans multiple pages, you'll need to select them one page's worth at a time. Also, I've found that using conditional text in labels seems to make OO crash. It will recover, and work OK, but inserting it crashes OO every time. Good luck! -- Michael J. Dark, D.V.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
