Is there any function I can use to start a block of text in the same
position on a page?
I am using a mail merge to produce insurance certificates. The top
portion of the document lists the benefits (the # of which can vary),
while the bottom of the form produces two wallet cards. The data on
these cards is not fixed but comes from the merge as well (lists the
family members).
This is a special form with the two cards having the facility to be
peeled from the certificate and, therefore, precision is important..
I set up a paragraph style to position the start using a "space before"
of 266 points from the last cover line. This works fine as long as the
last line of the benefit section always falls on the same line, which,
being variable, it does not.
I've gotten around it by having my XL VBA routine (which produces the
data file) ensure that it always writes out a set # of benefit lines
(i.e. I pad it with blank lines).
It got me to wondering, however, if there wasn't some facility in Word
that would allow me to specify a fixed position for the card section to
start.  Many (more than I care to remember!) years ago when I was using
WordPerfect I seem to remember *something* like a vertical tab function.

I apologize for the length of this.