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"Fixing" shading of rows problem
I have a large mail merge document which creates baseball/football cards,
each page contains 20 cards, and a typical set has 16 pages for 320 cards. I altered the format this year, to add alternate shading on the rows To get all the data on the cards and lined up I use monospac821BT font, with text ranging from 6 point up to 10 point. My problem is that each card is a cell in a table (5 by 4 per page), but within each card I have sub tables with various bits of card data. It all looks fine in Word, but when I print it to PDF, it doesnt come out the same - the rows are bunched tighter, such that they slightly overlap and because of the grey shading on alternate rows, this is blocking out some text on the white rows. I've no idea why the PDF isnt coming out "as is" - the page setup is correct in Word with some smaller margins for A4, if I change the margin options on PDF print, it is better, but still not correct Anyway, It takes ages to go back and restart the merge, I would have to delete all the cells bar the first one, edit the shading and then copy/paste cells/rows to get the 320 cells filled in again I can't work out how to get rid of the shading "in one go" and can't find an option like in Excel where I could cheat by setting the light grey colour to white for this document, at least that would get rid of the shading and even if the text is bunched up, it will be OK for what I need any help/advice would be gratefully received cheers LeeH |
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