[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Assuming that the "blank lines" in your example represent empty paragraphs
(and that each line in the address block is also a paragraph), use Replace
to replace ^p (paragraph break) with ^l (line break). Then replace ^l^l (two
line breaks) with ^p. This will put each address block in a single
paragraph. Then use Table | Convert | Text to Table to convert your text
into a table, separating at paragraph marks. The number of columns Word will
suggest will not be correct; change the number to the number of labels
across.

Before starting this, you will have set the margins of your document to
match the margins on the label sheet. Now select the table rows you've
created and set the row height to exactly the height (in inches) of the
labels. Once you've done that, your table will match the label table, and
you can just copy/paste to append the new rows to the existing ones.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"madhg" wrote in message
...
I have a Word document with a table set up (to print mailing labels,
in 2 columns). And a plain text document with addresses. I'd like to
insert the addresses into the Word table, _without_ using Mail
Merge.

I've searched this group and haven't found this particular question
(though many somewhat similar ones).

Can I manipulate the text file in such a way that I can paste the text
into the Word doc.with each address on a different label?

Thanks in advance for any help,
David

The plain text doc has this format; different addresses have different
numbers of lines.

A person
33 streetname
town
county
postcode

A N Other
56 streetname
Town
county
postcode
country