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Column Style Mailing Lists
The following was supplied by Borland.
1. An example of a blank form.
Name:
Title:
Company:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
2. Run REFLEX2, enter REPORT View. Retrieve your database and create
a report design to print the information needed for the labels to
an ASCII file. Put each of the above field names on a separate
Body row as done below:
Body| Name
Body| Title
Body| Company
Body| Address
Body| City
Body| St
Body| Zip
Using the Variable Width, set each of the field names as "Wide as
Needed". DELIMIT each of the field names with quotes using the
Export attribute.
3. Choose CHANGE PRINTER SETTINGS from the Print/File menu, and set
the following parameters:
Output = Disk file
Enter a file name
Top margin = 0
Bottom margin = 0
Left margin = 0
Right margin = 254
Print with page breaks = no
4. Choose PRINT.
The Report view will create an ASCII text file which will be
translated into a new database.
.PAè Column Style Mailing Lists Continued...
5. Quit the Report View and select Translate.
Create a Translation spec with the following field names in the
Reflex field name column:
Name1
Title1
Company1
Address1
City1
St1
Zip1
Name2
Title2
Company2
Address2
City2
St2
Zip2
This is for two across. Add more for the number of labels across.
Make sure that you save this translation spec. Make sure that the
file name in the TO FILE cell is DIFFERENT from the original
database. This translation spec will create a record that contains
two records from the original mail list file.
7. Select TRANSLATE. Reflex will translate the file and create a new
Reflex database.
8. Run Report and retrieve the newly translated database. Create a
Report Design to print the names 2 across( or 3)
REPORT DESIGN
Name1 Name2
Title1 Title2
Company1 Company2
Address1 Address2
City1 City2
St1 St2
Zip1 Zip2
.PAè Column Style Mailing Lists Continued...
Tricks/ Traps
The original data file must have a number of records that is equally
divisible by the number of columns that you want in the final mail list
report. If you want a four column mail list report, your preliminary
database must have 4,8,12,16,20,------ number of records. If it does
not have the correct number of records, as many as three records at the
end of the preliminary database will be lost when the translation
occurs.
You should sort the original database in the order that you want the
names to display in the final mail list report, then add empty records
to the end of your database until the total number of records in the
database is divisible by the number of columns you want in you final
report.
I have tried this twice, and it works well. Be sure to save your
translation spec. It will save time the next time you want to
translate a data file.
Borland responded with this tech support in three days. Hats off to
them. Courteous on the phone and considerate enough to tell me that it
would take too long over the phone to tell me how.
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