If you read my reply in this thread, you'll see that they added direct
formatting - they didn't change the style.
I suspect the reason behind this is it's a failed attempt at adding some
padding before the first line. Many users have problems with their printers
placing the data too high on the labels which results in the tops of the
characters being cut off. Of course I don't know for sure, but that would
make sense.
btw, templates are the best way to ensure your preferred settings are always
saved -= especially in the corporate environment. One never knows when their
profile will be dumped and they are back to the defaults once again. ;-)
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"Icemaiden" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply. It is odd that they swapped out styles. I have
changed the normal.dot document and it still switches over to having 5.6
point before a line. Can't seem to change it and save it as a default.
I'll
have to recommend that people create a master template of their own and
use
that...
I have no choice but to use MS Office at work. I also serve as "helpdesk"
for 21 people in the dept. and it becomes frustrating when MS makes global
decisions about how they feel businesses should format their documents and
not provide a way of personalizing. Generally I like MS Office - I just
don't like the inability to save my preferencial default settings.
Thanks again.
LT
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
It is nothing to do with single spacing, but with inter-paragarph
spacing.
The default setting for normal style (used for labels) is to have 12
points
of space after each paragraph and it is that that appears to show the
double
spacing on the labels (the address lines each being a paragraph).
It seems odd that Microsoft swapped Normal style and the No spaced stype
while leaving normal as the default style for labels. They would have
been
better creating a normal spaced style and left normal unspaced as in
previous versions. You can make these changes if you wish as long as you
remember to save them in normal.dot.
If you don't like Microsoft products there are alternatives you can buy.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Icemaiden wrote:
Well, I changed my "normal" style to be single spaced a while ago so
that doesn't seem to be the solution and I don't use the address
block for the merges, I put in each separate field. So what I'm
hearing, is there is no way to set the default label document to be
single spaced?! I have an office of 21 people that use Word merges
with Access and I'd really like to be able to tell them how to
configure their software to work correctly.
Sometimes I really dislike Microsoft with their holier-than-thou
decisions on what they think people should use. Office 2007 is a
prime example!
Thanks.
LT
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
Are you talking about line spacing or paragraph spacing. Possibly
you have the paragraph spacing in the Normal style set to have 12pts
after it and because the elements of the address are in separate
paragraphs, they appear to be double spaced.
You may also be using the addressblock which has each element of the
address in a separate paragraph. Instead of doing that, just insert
the individual merge fields into the label in the configuration that
you want them, separating each with a new line feed (Shift+Enter)
rather than a carriage return if you want to retain the space
between paragraphs in your Normal style.
--
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
"Icemaiden" wrote in message
...
I've set my default template/document in Word 2007 to single space
for all new documents. However, this doesn't seem to hold true
when trying to do a
mail merge with labels??!!?? I can't seem to find a way to change
the default label document - if there is such an animal.... I want
all my documents to be single spaced - labels, envelopes, letters
etc. - I want it
to be the default (don't want to manually change each and every
document I create). If I choose to change to a different paragraph
style, I will! I don't want MS to choose for me.
Help!?!?!
Thanks. :-)
LT