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Richard Woolley Richard Woolley is offline
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Originally Posted by chipp2shore View Post
Start your mail merge in word 2007/2010, then after you get the the stage where you insert the merge field (with the chevrons at each end), highlight the mergefield.

Then go to the HOME tab and click on the button with the up/down arrows above the word 'Paragraph' .
Click 'remove space before paragraph' and make sure the spacing is set to 1 pt. The go back to the MAILINGS tab and continue the merge with 'update labels'. The format in the mergefield (with the chevrons) will carry the line spacing to all the contacts, which should now be single spaced with no padding.


Chris D.
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I found that the easiest way to deal with this ridiculous and unnecessary problem is to type out the address single spaced in Word and then simply cut and paste it to the label.