[Helen]

I'm doing mailing labels and would like the text centered top-to-bottom on
the label. Hopefully there's a simple way to accomplish this without having
to move label to label adding an extra return.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

By default, Word centers labels vertically. Mail merge, however, for
unfathomable reasons, adds a couple of extra paragraphs to each label, which
will throw this off. When you set up the first label, display nonprinting
characters so that you can see these extra paragraphs and delete them. If
the label is not vertically centered, use the Vertical Alignment control on
the shortcut menu to Center it. Do all this before you propagate the labels.
Note that if you don't see Vertical Alignment on the shortcut menu (it's not
on all the Table shortcut menus by default), you can try changing the
selection or display the Tables and Borders toolbar; I can't see that this
control is available anywhere else except by going to the Cell tab of Table
Properties (though I guess you could add it to the Table menu).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"Helen" wrote in message
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I'm doing mailing labels and would like the text centered top-to-bottom on
the label. Hopefully there's a simple way to accomplish this without
having
to move label to label adding an extra return.