Recipe Card Formatting

Leesha
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Recipe Card Formatting

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Hi,
I'm uploading a stripped down version of a DB. There is a report that prints the way I want it to look for each recipe but the layout is wrong. My goal is to have it print as 4 separate recipes per page, printing side by side, 2 on top, 2 on bottom. They are to be used as recipe cards. I tried using the label wizard for Avery 8387 but nothing I did got it to print appropriately, which is why I tried to do it in a report. I was going to try columns but couldn't get that to work either. Is this even possible?
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Alicia
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Re: Recipe Care Formatting

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sorry did not look at zip

Open the report in design view.

Highlight the section band containing the fields (?Details section).

Click File | Page Setup ... Columns tab.

Set up your columns.

that gets the side-by-side
the up-and-down count is going to involve the page break

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I've tried that without any luck. I can get all 4 on the page but the spacing is not correct. It's step in the right direction however I need them to print as a equally spaced side by side.

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In the attached version, I used a main report that only contains the recipe ID and name, with a subreport for the rest.

RecipeCards.zip
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OMG! If you knew how many hours I have struggled with this. At one point, when "thinking like Hans" I wondered about a sub report but then immediately dismissed it as I had no idea if I could get a subreport to work with columns. This is awesome and I am so appreciative!

Is this how you would handle getting a sheet of labels to print to one page? I'm trying to print labels with the recipe names for the 4 reports that are contained in the recipe cards, using Avery 5160/8160 labels. I created the label using the label wizard but it only prints 4 labels / sheet. Ideally it would print 4 sheets with 1 set of labels per sheet. I've tried only selecting one Recipe Name at a time, but then all I get is 1 label. It shouldn't be this hard.
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Leesha

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Avery 5160/8160 is 3 across, so you won't be able to print 4 labels per sheet.
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How would I set it up to print 1 recipe name per sheet so each sheet would print a full sheet 1 one recipe name and then the next recipe name would print on page 2 and so on?

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Here is a fairly simple way to do it. I added a table tblNum that just contains the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, and added this table to qryRecipe. That's all!

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That is pretty cool! So I'm assuming (that always gets me in trouble, that I would do a similar thing using just the recipe name in a subreport on the 8160 label style?

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If you want a report with just the recipe name repeated n times, you could create a label report and place the ReportName field in the detail section.
Use the trick with tblNum to repeat the label the desired number of times. No subreport needed.
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I just tried it and it worked like a charm! Love this trick.
As always, THANK YOU!
Leesha