Thanks Ralph. The space is actully the space between the merge fields. So, for example, if I have Mr. John Smith, if there is no prefix the space that spearates Mr. from John shows up. After the merge runs, the evelopes without the prefix the text is one over so it's not properly aligned.
Mr. John Smith
John Smith
You need to prepare your merge document with conditional fields, that place
the information you want (and the following spaces) when the field(s) have
content and not when they don't.
e.g.
{IF {Mergefield Title} <> "" "{Mergefield Title} " ""}{Mergefield
First_Name}
the space is included in the condition
i.e.
{IF {Mergefield Title} <> "" "{Mergefield Title}<space>" "<no spaces>"}<no
space>{Mergefield First_Name}
Conditional field are coded by hand using CTRL+F9 to set the field boundary
pairs {}

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> Thanks Ralph. The space is actually the space between the merge
> fields. So, for example, if I have Mr. John Smith, if there is no
> prefix the space that separates Mr. from John shows up. After the
> merge runs, the envelopes without the prefix the text is one over so
> it's not properly aligned. Mr. John Smith John Smith