Tasked with making a draw ticket with sequential numbering

This is an interesting one. Our shelter group is giving away a $2000 travel voucher, and they want me to make a ticket. They’ve given me a msWord doc with the information they want on the ticket. Fair enough. No problem so far.
My problem is numbering the tickets from 1 to 500.

I’m not sure how to approach this. Word, or Excel, or maybe Xara can do it. Naturally I’d liKe to do it in Xara. I could simply construct the ticket and hand number each copy. I’ve posted a screen shot of the information they’ve sent me. Any ideas greatly appreciated.

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you could do it in word if you have to, using mail merge, but I have not done anything like it for a long time; there are likely better ways, there is a learning curve to mail merge if you have never used it before

Bill, create a Text Column for the number in the top-left corner.
Give it a ClassName of htmlclass="ticket"
Clone your 500 tickets in your design.

In the Website HTML Body (code), put:

Code:

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<script>
var draw = document.querySelectorAll('.ticket');
for(var i = 0; i < draw.length; i++) {
    draw[i].innerHTML = ("0000" + (i + 1)).slice(-3);
}
</script>

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Getting up to 250 pages to print will be fun.
Download as PDF returns the pre-code text so is a bust.

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I put lots of numbers on pages just for the sake of it.
They are mixed up but sequential.

Acorn

Thanks a bunch @acorn. That’ll work. I’ll mess with it a bit.

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Originally Posted by handrawn

you could do it in word if you have to, using mail merge, but I have not done anything like it for a long time; there are likely better ways, there is a learning curve to mail merge if you have never used it before

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Thanks @handrawn. I did fool with mail merge a bit. Constructing anything like this in Word is such a PIA. Just awful. Constructing this in Xara is a breeze with the exception of the numbering thing. The drawing component in word drives one to sub to MS Publisher; again the gates of hell.
Thanks

understandable - I was asked to do mailshots once for a society, usual thing no one else would do it [:D]; took me a week to get my head round it with word, I was sure glad when they did find someone else even though it is not difficult once you get it set up right

it is the numbering with xara sure, that needs to be addressed, you are in good hands with acorn; make sure you future-proof it, ie you construct it in such a way that when you are asked to make 'a small change' you don't have to start all over again...

In passing, if, and only if, you were able to put one ticket per page and your printer could handle Multiple Pages per Sheet, say for a ticket 6" x 3", then just use Xara's Page Numbering.

Attachment 132531 will produce a PDF - Attachment 132532.
I printed its 12 tickets onto 2 x A4 sheets in a 3x2 arrangement with little wastage. Letter paper had a bit more waste.

No code involved.

Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

In passing, if, and only if, you were able to put one ticket per page and your printer could handle Multiple Pages per Sheet, say for a ticket 6" x 3", then just use Xara's Page Numbering.

Attachment 132531 will produce a PDF - Attachment 132532.
I printed its 12 tickets onto 2 x A4 sheets in a 3x2 arrangement with little wastage. Letter paper had a bit more waste.

No code involved.

Acorn

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Now your talkin @acorn. That looks liKe a great solution. This looks like an 8 1/2 by 14 inch sheet. I’m finding that most print shops have a ticket template, and they simply slot in the info. The numbered portion of the ticket is already there. Then they cut and staple. The cutting and stapling, with slight perforations is part of that service. But this looks like a great DIY solution. Thanks.