Sorting with a half page layout

[ibthebest]

I have a data base of members names, addreses, etc, and wish to publish a directory in a half page format in booklet form (8 1/2 by 11 folded and stapled in half). I can set up the layout to print in half page columns but can't get it to sort so that when stapled together the data remains alphabetical. In other words, the data needs to move to the correct half page on the basis of the size of the data base and pages required. I hope I have described this correctly so you can give me some help. Maybe FMP can't do this but I know their are word processing programs that are able to do this for newsletters.

[Lee Smith]

Hi ibthebest, and welcome to the Forum.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to print your address out as you would print a book. AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this within FileMaker. Keep in mind, you are using a database, not a design program. You will probably have to use something like QuarkXPress and tags, to do it.

I did a search of the Forum using +Print +book and it turned up 7 hits that may be useful to you, as I didn't read them, and you might try some variants to see if that produces anything helpful.

There may be a plugin in that will do this, but I don't think so.

Sorry I wasn't much help.

Lee

[ibthebest]

Lee,

Thanks for your reply. I hadn't found a way to do this but am not that heavy of a user of FMP. Maybe I will be able to export the sorted data into Microsoft Publisher or similar program.

Michael