IMO if it works, stick with it.
Something I noticed when experimenting with this was that the Word display
was quite unstable when I modified the cell margins - i.e. it seemed to be
updating continually. That could be just a problem with the display drivers,
especially I as use a virtual machine to go back to the older versions of
Word,, but it could also be a sign that the feature (or its implementation)
requires a lot of processing.
Peter Jamieson
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As far as I can tell, when you adjust the cell margin, Word actually
modifies the cell size (or at least, the height - I haven't even
considered the width). It wouldn't surprise me to learn that this is a
well-known "feature".
I had to switch to using points as my measurement unit to see the changes
with any precision, but with this label layout, before changing the cell
margins, the first line of text in the first row was at 36pt according to
the display in the status bar, and and the first line of the second row
was at 72pt.
After changing the cell margins to 0.05in, the equivalent values were
39.6pt and 79pt, and the cells were pushed over to the next page.
Selecting the table and changing the row height to 32.4pt to compensate
was enought to get all the labels back on one page, but whether it's what
you need is another question.
Peter Jamieson
Interesting, thank you! I"ll definitely take a look at this. Doug's
recommendation involving changing spacing to the left and right of, and
before and after paragraphs _seems_ to be working so far. Though this not
something one would intuitively think of as as a solution (who would ever
think of a cell in terms of a paragraph?), I'm just glad that something
works. But I'll check into your solution above. I always learn something
new when I try out a new technique.
Thanks. 
D
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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