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Peter Jamieson Peter Jamieson is offline
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Default anchor line while merging

Other than putting the address fields in a fixed-depth object such as a
table fellas per Doug's suggestion, a text box (not clear whether it is
all text boxes you want to avoid, or whether you want to avoid putting
the letter body in a text box), or a frame, I suspect you are left with
using an { ADVANCE } field to start your body text at an absolute
position. But I'd avoid { ADVANCE } unless there's no alternative.

Peter Jamieson

BotR wrote:
Im doing a mail merge with a form letter. I have 5 fields in the
data for
the address. Not all the fields are used all the time. Sometimes the

address is only 3 lines long, sometimes 5. After I merge the data to
the
form letter, the first paragraph after the merge fields starts on a
different
line depending on long the address was.

My question, is there a way to anchor the start of a line so it
doesnt
move. Just like anchoring a picture or text box. And no, I dont
want to
use a text box for my letter. Or do I have to use €œIF€ field = blank,
€œEnter€



Thanks