Curse that Cursor

[John]

I use Windows XP and have a Word 2000 document. It is a document that has a
..jpg inserted as an object via header so as to use as a watermark.

This file also has various merge codes throughout. However, the cursor
rests at the bottom of the page (bottom margin of the header). It causes the
merged "new document" to add a blank page after the merge takes place.

Is there any way to control where the cursor is/resides when inserting an
object in a header. I have paid attention and the cursor is always at the
top most left margin before I insert the object .jpg

Also, If I am not using the footer on these documents, can it be deleted?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,

I'm having trouble following what you're doing. What do you mean by "merge
codes"? Merge fields?

When you execute the mail merge, you're not in the document header/footer,
right? And you're saying that after the merge the document header/footer is
active?

Or are you saying that the JPG you've inserted in the header is taking up so
much room as to push the text on the page down? If that's the case, have you
tried formatting the Position to "Behind text"?

I use Windows XP and have a Word 2000 document. It is a document that has a
..jpg inserted as an object via header so as to use as a watermark.

This file also has various merge codes throughout. However, the cursor
rests at the bottom of the page (bottom margin of the header). It causes the
merged "new document" to add a blank page after the merge takes place.

Is there any way to control where the cursor is/resides when inserting an
object in a header. I have paid attention and the cursor is always at the
top most left margin before I insert the object .jpg

Also, If I am not using the footer on these documents, can it be deleted?

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

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[John]

I managed to find the answer by trying different choices on the "Format
Picture" advanced layout tab and vertical alignment until one of the choices
worked.

I have a document with a picture inserted into the header. The header is
then closed and text boxes inserted over various areas of the picture/form.
The file is directed to be a form file and merge codes are then inputted into
the various text boxes.

When that form file is merged to a new blank document, because the cursor
was aligning at the bottom left edge of form before the merge, the new
document created via the merge would also create a second blank page that was
not needed.

I played with the vertical alignment choices on the advanced layout tab when
the "picture/header" was active until I could convince the cursor to reside
at the top of the page instead. That way when the merge took place only one
page was created.

Hope this is helpful.