Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
|
|||
|
|||
MailMerge Label Hell.....help!
Before I go proper demented!!
We have a word document with names and address's in a table....we set up the mailmerge for labels selecting what seems to be the right label....BUT when we merege two things happen that I cant work out:- 1. The address's are lined up too close to the left hand side - this means they miss the label at certain points - how do I move that over (cant seem to find a line up that works!) 2. The address's seem to line up wrongly and as you go down the page they print totally incorrectly even though on screen they look right. They line up wrong and the bottom get's chopped off - some of the address's have 4 lines and some 5 - could this be anything to do with it? 3. On screen it looks like the table screws up - it shows a small part of the next page table and the start of the name and address - yet when printed this small row is actually on the next page?! Is that normal? 4. Out of despiration I gave up on the label idea all together and made a normal table to the dimention of the labels...guess what - bingo it works and all line up fine - EXCEPT it will not print the last row on the table so we're wasting 3 labels each page HELP - any info appreciated!! -- Thanks for your time Egglett |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
|
|||
|
|||
MailMerge Label Hell.....help!
Did you check that the dimensions of your labels matched the definition of
the labels that you selected in Word? You can change the position of the text on the labels (not that you should have to) by changing the indent via FormatParagraph. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Egglett" wrote in message ... Before I go proper demented!! We have a word document with names and address's in a table....we set up the mailmerge for labels selecting what seems to be the right label....BUT when we merege two things happen that I cant work out:- 1. The address's are lined up too close to the left hand side - this means they miss the label at certain points - how do I move that over (cant seem to find a line up that works!) 2. The address's seem to line up wrongly and as you go down the page they print totally incorrectly even though on screen they look right. They line up wrong and the bottom get's chopped off - some of the address's have 4 lines and some 5 - could this be anything to do with it? 3. On screen it looks like the table screws up - it shows a small part of the next page table and the start of the name and address - yet when printed this small row is actually on the next page?! Is that normal? 4. Out of despiration I gave up on the label idea all together and made a normal table to the dimention of the labels...guess what - bingo it works and all line up fine - EXCEPT it will not print the last row on the table so we're wasting 3 labels each page HELP - any info appreciated!! -- Thanks for your time Egglett |
#3
Posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
|
|||
|
|||
MailMerge Label Hell.....help!
Doug... thanks for that, I did find that and it works so it get's rid of one
problem - BUT I am left now with labels that vertically go out of line as the pages print. Mail merge produced 16 pages worth of label address's... they line up perfect horizontal using the indent setting however after the 3'rd page the text seems to rise up the page which means that the top labels are in line but the bottom one's move up to the extent that the person's name is chopped off the label Any idea's on why that happens and how to stop it? -- Thanks for your time Egglett "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Did you check that the dimensions of your labels matched the definition of the labels that you selected in Word? You can change the position of the text on the labels (not that you should have to) by changing the indent via FormatParagraph. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Egglett" wrote in message ... Before I go proper demented!! We have a word document with names and address's in a table....we set up the mailmerge for labels selecting what seems to be the right label....BUT when we merege two things happen that I cant work out:- 1. The address's are lined up too close to the left hand side - this means they miss the label at certain points - how do I move that over (cant seem to find a line up that works!) 2. The address's seem to line up wrongly and as you go down the page they print totally incorrectly even though on screen they look right. They line up wrong and the bottom get's chopped off - some of the address's have 4 lines and some 5 - could this be anything to do with it? 3. On screen it looks like the table screws up - it shows a small part of the next page table and the start of the name and address - yet when printed this small row is actually on the next page?! Is that normal? 4. Out of despiration I gave up on the label idea all together and made a normal table to the dimention of the labels...guess what - bingo it works and all line up fine - EXCEPT it will not print the last row on the table so we're wasting 3 labels each page HELP - any info appreciated!! -- Thanks for your time Egglett |
#4
Posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
|
|||
|
|||
MailMerge Label Hell.....help!
Two possibilities spring to mind -
1. There is slippage in the paper feed of the printer (test by printing on plain paper) there is nothing that can be dome if this occurs - short of replacing the printer with one that handles labels better. 2. You have a mismatch between the page sizes set in the label document and the printer and have the scaling option set in the print dialog. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Egglett wrote: Doug... thanks for that, I did find that and it works so it get's rid of one problem - BUT I am left now with labels that vertically go out of line as the pages print. Mail merge produced 16 pages worth of label address's... they line up perfect horizontal using the indent setting however after the 3'rd page the text seems to rise up the page which means that the top labels are in line but the bottom one's move up to the extent that the person's name is chopped off the label Any idea's on why that happens and how to stop it? Did you check that the dimensions of your labels matched the definition of the labels that you selected in Word? You can change the position of the text on the labels (not that you should have to) by changing the indent via FormatParagraph. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Egglett" wrote in message ... Before I go proper demented!! We have a word document with names and address's in a table....we set up the mailmerge for labels selecting what seems to be the right label....BUT when we merege two things happen that I cant work out:- 1. The address's are lined up too close to the left hand side - this means they miss the label at certain points - how do I move that over (cant seem to find a line up that works!) 2. The address's seem to line up wrongly and as you go down the page they print totally incorrectly even though on screen they look right. They line up wrong and the bottom get's chopped off - some of the address's have 4 lines and some 5 - could this be anything to do with it? 3. On screen it looks like the table screws up - it shows a small part of the next page table and the start of the name and address - yet when printed this small row is actually on the next page?! Is that normal? 4. Out of despiration I gave up on the label idea all together and made a normal table to the dimention of the labels...guess what - bingo it works and all line up fine - EXCEPT it will not print the last row on the table so we're wasting 3 labels each page HELP - any info appreciated!! -- Thanks for your time Egglett |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Repeating text label in mailmerge | Mailmerge | |||
Avery 8167 Label Template Wrong | Mailmerge | |||
Need One Page of Same Label; Label Created from 20 records | Mailmerge | |||
mailmerge label type document | Mailmerge | |||
mailmerge with txtfile | Mailmerge |