Mail Merge Letters - address block spacing

I'm trying to use mail merge to write some letters.

Once I've completed the merge, the address block appears with large spacing in between each line - I can't get the lines to appear directly below each other.

The only way I've managed it is it I go through each letter individually and edit it, which defeats the object.

I'm using Office 2007.

Any help welcome!

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Answer

Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)

Select the Address Block in your mail merge main document and press Shift+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes and then use Format Paragraph to remove the space before or after the paragraph and set the line spacing to Single if necessary, or you might just check the box for "Don't add space between paragraphs of the same type".

Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word)
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Graham Mayor

Apply a style that doesn't have spacing between paragraphs, or better still don't use the address block, but instead use the fields that make up the address directly and formatted as you want them.

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