Word 97 Mergefield inside a table is not wrapping correctly

[jeffward]

I have a mergefield inside a table and it is not wrapping correctly, infact its truncating part of the text before wrapping, for example :-

99 The Lane Down-the-Road Toytown TT01 9YZ

The Toytown is being chopped off but the post code then correctly wraps to the next line as below: -

99 The Lane Down-the-Road Toy
TT01 9YZ

This should wrap at Toytown and thus look like this: -

99 The Lane Down-the-Road
Toytown TT01 9YZ

We are using Word 97 service pack 2

The document is using the Arial size 10 font which I cant change as its a legal document!

 

[macropod]

Hi Jeff,

You might find this behaviour is cause by the paragraph margins that have been set inside the table - make sure they are no wider than the cell widths.

Cheers

 

[jeffward]

Thanks Macropod, the right indent was set to -5, set this back to 0 and everything is OK.

I should stress that i didnt write the templates and that i will be having a word with the guy that did it when he gets back from holiday next week , but at least I know what to look for know if I ever have this problem.