Beth Melton wrote:
I guess I don't see this as confusing. The extra padding is a
function of the Label Options dialog box when used with Mail Merge.
If you don't use the dialog box to create the label definition then
the padding will not be added. If you use the dialog box then the
padding will be added since the procedure for creating the label
definition occurs when you click OK in the Label Options dialog box.
Agreed, but lots of people want to use templates to create label merges.
What is confusing is that the padding is only added when you start the merge
from the Start Mail Merge tool and not when you start from a document and
change the document type subsequently, either using the Start Mail Merge or
the similar tool which can be added to the QAT.
As a matter of fact, I think mail merge in Word 2007 is the least
confusing so far. The Mailings tab categorizes each primary process
for mail merge into groups on the tab: Start Mail Merge, Write &
Insert Fields, Preview Results, and Finish. I think it's even more
straightforward than the old Mail Merge Helper. This was good but it
didn't include the process for inserting the mail merge fields. Once
the dialog box closed you needed to know to use the mail merge
toolbar and find the command to insert the fields. If you follow the
commands on the Mailings tab for mail merge from left to right, each
step is presented to you. Perhaps this is an example of how trying to
continue to implement old methods will make things more confusing in
the new version?
I have no argument there either, the comments concerned primarily the
addition of the padding, which I had missed as attributable to the new label
merge function (but which is not an inherent part of labels nor of merge
generally). Even the dreadful AddressBlock field now works properly most of
the time.
Regarding adding the "Main Document Setup" command to the QAT, how
does this work any different than using the Start Mail Merge command
on the Mailings tab? The extra space is still added since it appears
to be calling the same routine as the Start Mail Merge command.
It doesn't work differently - but the space is not added if you merely
change the document type (of an already loaded template) to labels and then
continue the merge process.
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