How to insert auto-incremental numbers on Publisher

In article , "Mary Sauer"
wrote:
> Mail Merge. Create a data base with consecutive numbers.
>
> Mail and catalog merge
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH062524751033.aspx

I have done something similar elsewhere and offer the following extra tip.

If you have (say) 4 (tickets) on a sheet and number them consecutively then
after guillotining the four piles of tickets will not have consecutive
numbers and you may then need to do a lot of sorting. Also, unless your
guillotining is very accurate, the tickets may need trimming to create tidy
piles.

If however you write a little (maybe BASIC) program to create the number
sequence so that each guillotined pile has consecutive numbers you can save
yourself a lot of work and have a much tidier piles of tickets!

I am assuming that your guillotine can handle the complete set of sheets -
if not you may have to do it in batches and some of the advantage is lost.

All this may sound complicated - but in principle you only need to write the
(BASIC) program once - hence if you print many sets of tickets etc. it is
very worthwhile.

John






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So, how is it done?
Just need to know.
Small organization print ticket, multiple per page, a simple non-cpu-geek application will be nice.


> On Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:36 PM JoeCSylveste wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to create tickets on MS Publisher for my organization.
> And stuck on the part of generating different ticket numbers for my
> publisher file.
>
> Is there anyway that I can insert an automatic-increment numbers on my
> ticket, so when printing next page, the number will increase by itself
> without typing it manually?
>
> Thank you & Regards.


>> On Monday, February 18, 2008 5:16 AM Mary Sauer wrote:

>> Mail Merge. Create a data base with consecutive numbers.
>>
>> Mail and catalog merge
>> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH062524751033.aspx
>>
>>
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>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://msauer.mvps.org/
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>>
>> "Joe C.Sylvester" wrote in message
>>


>>> On Monday, February 18, 2008 6:27 AM Mr John FO Evans wrote:

>>> In article , "Mary Sauer"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have done something similar elsewhere and offer the following extra tip.
>>>
>>> If you have (say) 4 (tickets) on a sheet and number them consecutively then
>>> after guillotining the four piles of tickets will not have consecutive
>>> numbers and you may then need to do a lot of sorting. Also, unless your
>>> guillotining is very accurate, the tickets may need trimming to create tidy
>>> piles.
>>>
>>> If however you write a little (maybe BASIC) program to create the number
>>> sequence so that each guillotined pile has consecutive numbers you can save
>>> yourself a lot of work and have a much tidier piles of tickets!
>>>
>>> I am assuming that your guillotine can handle the complete set of sheets -
>>> if not you may have to do it in batches and some of the advantage is lost.
>>>
>>> All this may sound complicated - but in principle you only need to write the
>>> (BASIC) program once - hence if you print many sets of tickets etc. it is
>>> very worthwhile.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> _ _________________________________________
>>> / \._._ |_ _ _ /' Orpheus Internet Services
>>> \_/| |_)| |(/_|_|_> / 'Internet for Everyone'
>>> _______ | ___________./ http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk


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