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- Subject: Re: Labels in Double Helix
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:19:00 GMT
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- schultz@iastate.edu (Jonathan R Schultz) writes:
-
- >I'm helping out as friend who is printing labels on a LaserWriter from
- >Double Helix. The labels are two across on the page, but he is only
- >printing labels on the first column. How can he set up Double Helix to use
- >both columns?
-
- This has always been my primary problem with DH/HE, the template
- editor isn't set up to handle data from multiple records in this kind of
- multiple column layout. But there is a way to trick it into doing it.
- What you need to do is isolate the records that you want labels for,
- then sequentially number them. Once you do this, and you know the number
- of labels that you need per column(eg. 7). Then you can give each of
- those records a lookup field where they perform a lookup of the relevant
- information in record #(current record number + 7). Then you print out
- the information from this record, and the lookued up information side by
- side, and you have a multiple column label layout. It's a pain in the
- ass, but it does work.
-
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