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Variable Row Heights in Mail Merge

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Neil Dittmar - 20 Sep 2004 20:21 GMT
Hello All,

I currently have a "Catalog" mail merge set up to merge
records from one datasource (A Word document containing a
single table with data) into a main document containing a
1 row table with the merge fields inserted accordingly in
the cells.  This works fine, however all the rows are the
same height when they don't necessarily need to be.  For
example, if a cell in one row (beginning, middle, or end)
results in three lines worth of data, all rows in the
Catalog merge will have the height of the tallest row,
even if the other rows don't need to be that high.  This
results in a lot of unnecessary spacing in the end result
document.

I've tried playing with the row height options to no
avail.  What options do I need to set so that each of the
rows in my Catalog merge has a variable height based on
the actual contents of the cells in that specific row?  
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems
Cindy M  -WordMVP- - 23 Sep 2004 10:26 GMT
Hi Neil,

Which version of Word are we discussing, here? Normally, in
the most recent versions of Word, I'd expect the default to
be "variable"...

> I currently have a "Catalog" mail merge set up to merge
> records from one datasource (A Word document containing a
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> rows in my Catalog merge has a variable height based on
> the actual contents of the cells in that specific row?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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