Re: How to "clean up" page of labels with blank spaces

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From: Doug Robbins (dkr_at_NOmvpsSPAM.org)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:53:59 -0400

If you select Show Gridlines from the Table menu, what to you see? If you
have the table selected, you will see the Convert Table to Text option on
the Table menu (If you expand the menu fully) 

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:242C5EB8-CEB2-47B6-8FF1-9B7E503BCC48@microsoft.com...
> Unfortunately in that tutorial, there is no selection under the table menu 
> to
> "convert table to text", so I am still stuck.  Obviously there's no easy 
> way
> to do this, so I'll just have to cut and paste each address into blank 
> spaces
> to consolidate.
>
> "Doug Robbins" wrote:
>
>> See the "Convert Labels into a Data File" item on fellow MVP Graham 
>> Mayor's
>> website at:
>>
>> http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels_into_mail_merge.htm
>>
>>
>>
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>> Please respond to the Newsgroup for the benefit of others who may be
>> interested.   Questions sent directly to me will only be answered on a 
>> paid
>> consulting basis.
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>> Hope this helps,
>> Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>> "Chris A." <Chris A.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:21391930-9053-4CC3-8A52-31DF07C12C7C@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a long 10-page list of mailing labels to print.  Someone went
>> >through
>> > and deleted some of the unneccessary ones, now I have a bunch of empty
>> > spaces
>> > that I'd love to clean up somehow, rearrange all of the labels to fill
>> > every
>> > spot, but maybe only take up 6 pages.  Any way in Word to automatically
>> > "clean up" the list of labels so there aren't any blank spaces?
>>
>>
>>

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