This usually occurs when you have merge field DATA that exceeds the size of
the merge field. For instance, your merge field might be a 11 characters
long for {LAST NAME}, but when you go trying to put Johnson-DiStefano in
there, it bumps the text down a line. You need to preview a LOT of your
records to find the longest ones and, if you need to fit to a page, use
THOSE as your "model", not your merge fields. This is a fairly common thing
to goof on. I do it all the time.
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Hope it helps!
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"mitchell" wrote in message
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I have several hundred mail merge templates that I use... recently we've
noticed that after performing the mail merge, the content on the page gets
bumpped down a few lines Leaveing a greater margin at the top of the page
then originally designed. working within the tight margins, the content
that
would be at the end of the page is now bummped to a second page... When I
edit the template, with the merge field filled in, this does not happen,
the
form is as it was intended, It's only when I merge the dot with my data
source that this anomaly occurs... WHY WHY WHY... How do I get it to stop
doing this...

Frustrated

Mitchell

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