LDSC: Creating a nice Ward Directory (Access?)

Chuck Johnson wa7jos at xmission.com
Tue Jun 5 00:28:09 CDT 2007


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ethang34787 wrote:
> We want to put together a nice, new Ward Directory for members. Does
> anyone have some past experience in this that you can share?
>
> Any templates or how-to's online that someone can point us to?
I put one in the files section a couple of years ago.  It is named 
SampleDir.PDF 
<http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/0O1kRuhxHKomXePX-hYEo4D1sHq2tHpCbUr2Dm51cQ2VpygmUTCSeZbd2shB85IOO5NQsMqQXqWAeGlWtuoHrGHsx04/SampleDir.PDF>

To build it, I generate an abbreviated list with children in MLS. 
My goal is to get the information into a tab delimited document file.  I 
do some editing in a document file first.. 
For example, Doe, John & Jane needs to be split into three different 
fields.  I change the comma to a tab, and also the ampersand.  You may 
also have some children whose surnames don't match the parents which you 
may want to edit.

Then I switch to a desktop publishing program.  I establish frames on 
each page for the data and link one page to another in the correct order 
to form a booklet when printed double sides, folded in half, and stapled 
to form a booklet.  There is a cover page, a leadership page, maps, and 
a meeting schedule page.  The directory fits on the pages in the middle.

It was quite a bit of work to create this the first time, but after 
that, you only need to update the leadership and schedule pages as 
required and import a new directory document to replace the old data. 

Chuck Johnson


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