Customised margins with mail merge

[sb]

Hi

Does anyone know of way of always forcing text to wrap around part of
a page when performing a mail merge?

Someone has foolishly decided to move the address on our headed
notepaper to the bottom right hand corner of the page. I need to
modify our mailing templates, so that text wraps around it.

My initial thought was that all was required was to add a blank image
placeholder into the template, anchor it in the right position and set
text to wrap around it. This works well enough when manually creating
a document. However, when mail-merging one of two things happens.
Either the merged text continues over the placeholder or, word moves
the placeholder onto the second page of the document. No amount of
playing with the picture position and text wrapping options on the
advanced layout dialogue seems to have the desired effect.

Basically what I'm after is a margin layout which forces text into the
shape below:

xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx
xxxxxx

Many thanks

Ian

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Have you tried
a. opening the footer
b. with the insertion point in the footer, inserting a text box
c. locating and formatting the text box more or less the way you described?

Peter Jamieson

 

[sb]

Have you tried
a. opening the footer
b. with the insertion point in the footer, inserting a text box
c. locating and formatting the text box more or less the way you described?

Thar works a treat. Many thanks...

Ian