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Mail Merge Labels in Word 2007 Default double spacing
On the Home tab of the ribbon right Click 'Normal' style.
Select Modify from the drop down menu. Check the New Documents based on this template radio button. Click Format Paragraph Change space after from 10pt to 0 Change line spacing from Multiple 1.15 to Single Click OK - OK Check Word Options Advanced Save Prompt before saving normal template When you close Word you will get a prompt to save the normal template. Save it! - Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bons wrote: WOW---for some reason I am really dense on this one....I just messed around with EVERTYHING I could see to do and cannot get it to hold.....I'm usually able to figure these things out with just a bit of instruction...but this one has me stymied....I guess I'll just go back to the old way I first discovered...highlight everything in the first label and change the paragraph style to all zeroes, which then governs the rest of the labels. It's not as simple as it should be, but at least it gets the job done. I'll NEVER understand why they did this to us in the first place! But I truly DO appreciate you trying to help me on this. "Graham Mayor" wrote: It is not the normal template that I mentioned, but the normal paragraph STYLE. If you replace the normal template the original normal style, c/w extra line spacing, will be restored. You need to edit the normal STYLE in the normal template to remove the spacing from its paragraph attribute. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bons wrote: Thanks, Graham....unfortunately, I've tried that....replacing the normal document....and it holds for the rest of Word, but for some reason it doesn't hold for the labels....keeps defaulting back to the 1.5 spacing. I can't for the life of me figure out why a programmer would set 1.5 as the default in the first place....but will keep working to try to work around it. I really appreciate you responding to this query. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Labels, by default use the normal paragraph style, which in Word 2007 includes 1.5 line space. For my installation I edited the normal style to have no line space and replaced the No spacing style with a Normal spaced style to maintain compatibility. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Bons wrote: About a year ago there was a very long string of emails regarding this issue....and they didn't really give a good fix. Am hoping that by now someone has figured out a satisfactory solution..... The default for Labels is that rascal 5.55 spacing before paragraph ....and there doesn't seem to be a way of getting that to just go Away!! I know how to use a label template and have been doing so for a long time, just as a time saver. However, I teach computer software to realtors and a lot of them are not totally 'puter savvy and just want the simplest way possible to accomplish something. And using a single template is not a viable solution, as the data bases do not all have the same fields. With the new default for Mail Merge in Word '07 it is very cumbersome for them to do the merges....It used to be so EASY!!! WHY oh why did they have to screw this up? I have tried everything I can think of to make the single space hold, but to no avail. I have gone up to Page Layout and made all the spacings zero and told it to set as Default....I've gone into the Normal and Modified the normal and told it New Documents Based on this Template.....etc etc. Has ANYONE come up with a SIMPLE fix for this yet? I'm hoping that since a whole year has gone by maybe MSN has come up with a correction for this. I figure if there is anyone anywhere who knows the answer, it's going to be here.......This is the BEST place to learn I've ever seen. Thanks for any help you can give on this. |
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