Mail Merge Problems

[Mike G]

Word 07, had a problem with line break last week in thread "One small
problem" and solved it with SHIFT+, however now I am working on mail merges
where I am inserting an <<address>> into Word 07 and ending up with an
address block that looks double spaced when merged. Don't know how to cure
that....any ideas. TIA

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you are using the AddressBlock, instead of doing that, just insert the
individual fields in the configuration that you want, either ending each
line with a new line break (Shift+Enter) or if with a carriage return,
format the paragraphs so that they have neither space before or after.

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[Mike G]

We do about 20 letters a day to customers, via mailmerge, and with earlier
versions of Word were no problem. Data is extracted via a blackberry (sigh)
inserting individual fields and then adding a SHIFT+ to each, to me, is
labor intensive. We are still using a 2003 version, until we can figure out
how to move it to the 07 version. TIA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

FWIW, I've never had any luck with the AddressBlock. I also use individual
fields. And if you are doing this in the mail merge main document (as
intended), you need do it only once.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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