Printing

[Scott Loeb]

Hopefully someone can help me!

I'm creating a Business Plan. It's an outline setup that can be filled in the fields. I put each part of the outline in a different layout. To print I put the fields all together in one layout and used slide/printing to get rid of spaces. (Because aparently there is no other way) When I preview what the printing will look like, the space is to big between fields. Is their a way to choose how big the spaces between are. Or does someone know another way to do this?

[stanley]

Sliding can be tricky sometimes. If you want specific spacing, you can always use a calculated field instead. For example, If you're printing addresses on envelopes, you can arrange it like this with sliding:

[FIRST_NAME] [MIDDLE_INITIAL] [LAST_NAME]

[sTREET_ADDRESS] [APARTMENT]

[CITY] [sTATE] [ZIP_CODE]

Or, if you want it to look absolutely perfect, you would create three new calculated fields:

FirstAddressLine = FIRST_NAME & " " & MIDDLE_INITIAL & " " & LAST_NAME

SecondAddressLine = STREET_ADDRESS & " " & APARTMENT

ThirdAddressLine = CITY & ", " & STATE & " " & ZIP_CODE

You can also put cases in there, so that if there is no middle initial, only one space appears between the first & last names, etc.

Then, in the layout you just use the following:

[FirstAddressLine]

[secondAddressLine]

[ThirdAddressLine]

This is handy for all sorts of commonly used combinations of data.

Hope that helps

-Stanley

[BobWeaver]

Also have a look at merge fields

[Scott Loeb]

The address line isn't what I'm looking for because I'm not doing a name and address. The outline is 20 pages long. Each field is a page a piece. When I slide/printing it leaves messy space, some little some large. HELP ME!!!