[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Never having inserted a mergefield in that way before, I had never seen that
option. Having now done so, I can confirm that it does not work as expected
as I get the same results.

As far as I know, the only way to arrange text vertically is to have it in
the cell of a table and right click on the cell and from the shortcut menu,
choose Text Direction.

It is going to take some fiddling to prevent do that from screwing up the
layout of the labels. Note, that in Word, labels are just tables with fixed
cell dimensions so that if you split the cell that is a label so that you
can arrange the text in one part (cell) of the label so that it is vertical,
then you use the Update or Propagate Label facility to update all the labels
on the sheet, it will

1. NOT propagate the splitting of the cells to the other labels. You
will have to do that manually

2 Insert the Next Record field into the both of the second of the
cells created by the Split and you will have to manually remove that field
to keep all of the data for a record on the one label.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"geminidreamer" wrote in message
...
In Word 2003 (Windows XP Pro OS) I was attempting to use mail merge for
some
labels I am creating. When I did the InsertField, in the next dialog
box I
selected Category Mail Merge, then below that Field Names MergeField
where I gave the field the header name which matched my data source (e.g.
first name) in the section titled Field Properties. Just to the right of
that in the area named Field Options, I ticked off the box for Vertical
Formatting. I have a small section of my labels where I want the name to
appear vertically. However when I complete the merge process, the name
does
not go vertically but simply appears with double spaced characters
horizontally. can anyone help me get the fields selected to go
vertically?
What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Renee