J Jennie May 18, 2010 #1 (Word '07) How do I eliminate the empty space left when a mail merge field is blank?
D Doug Robbins - Word MVP May 18, 2010 #2 Are you talking about a line, or just a space in the one line? You would however you an If...then...Else field construction { IF { MERGEFIELD nameoffieldthatmightbeblank } = "" "{ MERGEFIELD nextmergefield }" "{ MERGEFIELD nameoffieldthatmightbeblank }¶ { MERGFIELD nextmergefield }" } Everything up to the ¶ shown above needs to be on the one line and in place of the ¶, press the Enter key or Shift+Enter You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Are you talking about a line, or just a space in the one line? You would however you an If...then...Else field construction { IF { MERGEFIELD nameoffieldthatmightbeblank } = "" "{ MERGEFIELD nextmergefield }" "{ MERGEFIELD nameoffieldthatmightbeblank }¶ { MERGFIELD nextmergefield }" } Everything up to the ¶ shown above needs to be on the one line and in place of the ¶, press the Enter key or Shift+Enter You must use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { } and you use Alt+F9 to toggle off their display. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
