I cannot tell you off-hand as i am rushing out but no you do not need sighted assistance. From what you say I would have the impression that you only want one address but if you are doing a mail merge you are sending out one letter to say 50 people and you wishe to say Dear Eleanor, Dear John etc. There are fields in which you will ;personalize this. When you actually do the addresses in Mail Merge if say you were going to print them out on an A4 sheet of labels the addresses are arranged in columns going across and down the page. You may have 3 columns of labels and say 10 labels going down in each column. Does that hellp for a start? You will have a tutorial on Mail Merge if you are doing a Word course. As I say, I'll look up more on that if nobody else gets back to you. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: vts To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: [access-uk] mail merge and envelopes hello when creating a mail merge for envelopes I cant seem to find how to position the text on the envelope correctly. I am merging a list of 100 names but when I do it the address comes out in one straight line. how do I make it so that the address is positioned correctly. do I need sighted assistance for this or can I do it myself. many thanks in advance. regards Vincent -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1380 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message