Re: labels thrown "out of whack" when cell or table margins changed? How to fix ... ?

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Another thing to check - if you bring up the Mail Merge Helper, does it still say you are doing a label merge? If it had somehow changed to being a Catalog merge, then it probably wouldn't do a page break after it had merged each page. If there was space for a complete table row at the bottom of the page, it would probably be added to the existing table. Adding a section break might change that behaviour. However, that's a bit far-fetched.

In any case, I don't really see how MailMerge can be cramming 21 rows onto one page if they are the correct height to match your label stationery, which suggests that there's still something wrong in the layout department.

Peter Jamieson

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wait a minute ... just noticed something ... I'll be danged. The last table row at the bottom of the first page is actually the first table row of a second table that should actually start on page 2. I had not seen the square with the NSEW points before signalling the start of a table because the mouse pointer must be in a certain spot over a table, as we all know, and I hadn't mouse over any area in the table that would show this before until now. I just inserted a page break between the two "tables" and everything was fine.

So, what does this mean? Am I missing a break of some sort at the bottom of my original Word template? Could it be something as simple as that??

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I played around with this and ended up inserting a section break right underneath the end of the table on the page of my original Word template. That seemed to do the trick. Is this acceptable Word usage for this type of thing? I'm asking because sometimes what we stumble upon doing is the best way to do something and it might cause problems down the road in other situations. Again, this seemed to do the trick. I'll test tomorrow by adding pages of dummy info to the Excel file to get several sheets in the merge and I'll see what happens then.

Thanks. :oD



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