MAIL MERGE

[Gusbenz]

How do you keep a mergedfield in the same spot on the page for every merge.

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Well what's going in the lines ABOVE and in the text to the LEFT of the MailMerge field?

Skip,

_{Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance!}

 

[Gusbenz]

Above the mailmerge field is an address block that has some lines that appear and some that do not appear depending upon the data.

 

[SkipVought]

Well that's how MailMerge works.

one thing you might do is put a one-cell table with a fixed row height for the address that's above, where the row has enough height for the maximum lines of address.

You could also use a Textbox object that is NOT an in-line object for the placement of any MM field.

Skip,

_{Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance!}

 

[macropod]

To ensure a consistent vertical layout, put the mergefields whose height changes (and any accompanying content if it affects paragraph text wrapping) into a fixed-height table sized to accommodate the largest amount of variable data.

You might also want to look at the Mailmerge Empty Space Suppression and Mailmerge Empty Line Suppression topics in the Mailmerge Tips and Tricks threads at:

http://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-merge/21803-mailmerge-tips-tricks.html

and:

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/163017-Word-Mailmerge-Tips-amp-Tricks

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]