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Im really excited to see the ongoing development in the Sheets panel - I had one minor issue

Scenario: Quite frequently I have wanted to send out individual letters to our patients and in the process just need the mailing address printed on the envelop [I don't have a label printer]

Attempt to use Sheets: In an attempt to adapt to this scenario - I coped LabelPatientMail sheet to a custom sheet. I expanded the sheet size to my envelop size Width 900 Height 400 - and opted to use Landscape since the envelop is printed sideway a it is fed into the printer

But when I print the envelop it prints it vertically and does not adapt to the rotated envelop which is how the printer feeds an envelop. I have even tried printing it without Landscape and it comes out exactly the same - [I hope im doing it correctly, in all the this-way-that-way i might have messed up my Height x Width or landscape & portraits

Thanks

Can you get a label printer? Problem solved.

I'll second that! I can't describe how many times a day we use the label printer. We are very likely going to get a second one for treatment room use.

We like printing addresses on plain standard inexpensive envelopes and actually use another program to do so.
Yup, sounds cheap, but it just doesn't make any sense not use the computer to print an envelope. it's too simple.

If anyone can get Sheets to work with standard 9 or 10 envelope
please post it here.

OD, the best dental management program.

Yorek wrote:We like printing addresses on plain standard inexpensive envelopes and actually use another program to do so.
Yup, sounds cheap, but it just doesn't make any sense not use the computer to print an envelope. it's too simple.

If anyone can get Sheets to work with standard 9 or 10 envelope
please post it here.

OD, the best dental management program.

Yeppers, printing on my very expensive envelopes without a label would be better. I do not know if sticking a label on this friggin expensive logo envelope is problem solved....kinda like saying ....well....you know ...Bush

Doesn't sound too hard for us to add as a sheet type. You could vote for that feature request.

i too will not be getting a label printer anytime soon. i still have my letter merge set up for envelope printing. it prints my logo in addition to patient addresses and always prints in the right orientation for an envelope. as long as the letter merge feature stays active (before the sheets request comes thru), you may want to look into this as an easy-to-use option.

Sparkly

Could you post your setup for the envelopes from the Letter Merge, it would be very helpful. Thanks

That would be neat!

The Open Dental Manual is pretty good when it comes to explaining how to set up the merge feature.

http://www.open-dent.com/manual/lettermerge.html

I am not sure how much this will help you but here are the merge fields I have set up to print on a business size envelope.

«FName» «MiddleI» «LName»
«Address»
«Address2»
«City» «State» «Zip»

Of course, in the return address area of the envelope you could put your information or logo if you are not using pre-printed envelopes.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you need specific information about how to set up the merge feature.

Yep, as said above. I'd love to post the word file for you but it's too much of a pain for me to try and upload to a host to post an url.
The key is to set the page layout for the Word document...Landscape...and size...B6, C5, whatever your envelope size is. Then when you select the letter merge fields to place in the document, what you see is what you get.