Okay, however non-intuitive this solution would be, it is doing the job,
thank goodness. I'm still having one problem. I'm getting an extra row at
the bottom of the merged end document. The original target document has the
correct spacing at the bottom, but the merged doct. puts in an extra row.
In WP, I vaguely remember that the last field on the page needed an extra
code (next record, or end record, or somesuch). Is this the same for Word?
Pls advise.
D
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Leave labels alone and achieve the space that you are after by changing
the formatting of paragraphs - Left and Right Indent, Space Before and
Space After.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message
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I absolutely must have cell margins that are at about 0.05" around the
insides of Avery-sized labels #5167. Before changing the margins, the
pages of labels are aligned and positioned correctly. The instant I
change them to 0.05", the rows all become misaligned and a standard sheet
has a row pushed off to the next page. About halfway throught the first
page, the labels contents are printing half off the labels.
The text before and after the merge in no way is too much for each cell
and I made sure that the "automatically resize to fit contents" option is
not selected in the table options of the table properties so I'm at a
loss to figure out what is going on. The labels are not always printing
correctly from sheet to sheet as, I'm sure most with experience have
found, different batches of labels come out slight differently placed.
I've not done much mail merge or label work as was the case back in my
old word-processing days, but at the time I had working templates with
table margins that worked for any label batches that came along. Through
trial and error one eventually finds the margins that work to the
maximums of label production offset and 0.05" is about the minimum to
accommodate these offsets. Certainly, 0.08" (tEventually a margin is
found that accommodates all slight variations between label stocks. But
if I can't change the margins and retain the integrity of labels, then
I'm stuck. Does anyone know what to do in this situation? I don't know
what else to look at. 0.05" is not even my preference for label margins.
In WP days, I'd use the standard WP size of 0.05" and I used to use 5167
even back then.
Stuck and hoping someone here knows a good solution to this. Thanks!
D