I believe you'll find the white space around the QR code is part of the QR code specification. That may be a fixed amount of white space or a white space proportional to the size of the QR code itself. Its reduction or removal (including by repositioning within the label) is liable to compromise the integrity of any QR code scanning. Placing the code behind the text will cause the text to intrude on that white space and potentially to obscure parts of the QR code itself.

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Thank you for the lesson on how QR codes work!

Thankfully the way the label template is set up there will always be room for the QR to have 'white space' around it (it gets printed on black metal so it's inverted), however the border is unnecessarily large.

With the QR code being manually manipulated to be "behind text" (picture formatting not literally behind text) and shifted to the left, it still functions. I just need a macro to repeat this process.

Best.

In that case, simply changing the table cell border size may be all you need. That should be done once - in the mailmerge main document - before the merge is executed.

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Paul Edstein
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