The normal template in Word 2007 will be normal.dotm (or dotx) rather than
normal.dot which was for earlier versions, and suggests that you are editing
the wrong file. It is certainly possible to set the normal style to have no
space before or after and thus have labels which match. Right click 'Normal'
on the home tab. Choose 'Modify'. Remove spacing from the paragraph
formatting options. Check the 'new documents based on this style' check box
and when you close out of Word (plus Outlook if running) , save the normal
template when prompted.
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Icemaiden wrote:
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.
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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.
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Hope this helps.
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"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