[Mike[_9_]]

I started out with a text data file layout with such fields as
name, addr1, addr2, addr3, postcode
and from there I built a "labels" mailmerge document

In my excel application, I ask how many avery labels I want to skip,
since I may only be printing one or two labels each time and may have
used labels at the start, so I write the appropriate number of blank
lines with say just 4 vbTab characters

Then I write the data, and open the mailmerge document which uses the
text file as its data source.

Often the first time the processed mailmerge document is produced, the
number of blank labels is wrong - it's usually 1 too many. At this
point I manually took a copy of the data source. My app asks if the
labels were OK, so I say No, and I repeat the process. This time, the
number of blank labels is correct. This is despite the "size"
attribute (not size on disk) for both files being exactly the same.

I didn't have this problem in Word 2000, although when I migrated to
2003 I had to recreate the mailmerge document, because the user
interface I was presented with didn't seem to work quite right on a 200
file (maybe I kept getting popups about version diffs I can't quite
remember)

Anyway I've just managed to find SP3 for 2003, but is this a known bug?
I couldn't find it documented anywhere
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Mike News