Comments on: Supressing Blank Lines in a Word 2007 Mail Merge

By: Don

Don — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:26:53 +0000

Alan–not sure what you are doing. If you add an address block to a mail merge, select it and format it using the Paragraph dialog’s No Space between paragraphs of the same style, it works. Envelopes don’t use the Normal 10pt After spacing, but if they do, you can easily format them in the same way.

I agree that MS’ decision to base everything on styles (a la CSS) is overkill (and confusing) for the majority of users, I have been using styles since WordPerfect 5.1, and for serious production work, they are essential.

By: Alan Fischer

Alan Fischer — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:45:21 +0000

None of these methods work. Microsoft is idiotic.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:09:03 +0000

Even the address block add the 10pt of extra space. The easiest fix I’ve found is to select the three or four address lines and using Home | Paragraph, check the Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style checkbox.

It is a pain in the rear, but the fix does work.

By: chapbell

chapbell — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:59:35 +0000

I could not get this to work for me, perhaps because I dislike the 2007 styles so much, that I’ve set it to default to the 2003 style.

However, the address block button on the mailings ribbon seems to accomplish the same thing.

Love Ocadia, but it wasn’t compatible with the newest version of WP. I miss it.