If you had table gridlines displayed, you would see that Word is formatting
these labels by creating narrow rows (for the stripe) between the label
rows. When you press Tab to create a new row of labels, you're getting just
the label rows, not the stripe rows. Although you could select two (or four
or six) rows and Insert Rows, generally whenever you have more than one page
of labels to create, it's more effective to do this with a mail merge.

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"Stephanie Smith" Stephanie wrote in
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I'm running Word XP on a machine with Windows 2000. I'm trying to print
multiple pages of labels using the Avery 5266 template (it's a file folder
label with a colored bar at the top). In this label format, the vertical
pitch is greater than the label height, to compensate for the colored bar
at
the top of each label on which you don't want to print. The first page of
my
labels works just fine; however, on the second page and all subsequent
pages,
Word seems to be changing the label height to match the vertical pitch,
which
means that I'm losing that bit of space that prevents printing on the
colored
bar at the top of each label. I've tried creating a custom label format
for
these, just to see if I could make it work that way, and I get the same
problem. Does Word just not deal well with multiple pages of labels for
which the label height and vertical pitch don't match? Is it worth
fighting
the computer on this one, or should I just give up now and create my
labels
one page at a time?

Thanks!