Re: Omitting empty field

Many thanks, I thought I was losing it there - thank you very much.

Rob

"Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Go to Tools|Customize|Comands, select category All Commands, then locate
> MailMergeHelper in the list of commands and drag it to a toolbar or menu
> (I enable the Mail Merge toolbar in Word 2002 and add the command to
> that). When you click that button you should be able to get tot eh
> original options.
>
> However,
> a. "suppress blank lines" is the default setting of this option anyway
> b. unfortunately after Word 2000 things changed so that the option does
> not work when the fields concerned are nested inside another field such as
> IF, INCLUDETEXT, AUTOTEXT. So if yiou have that situation, you have to
> work around by using e.g.
>
> { IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield }" = ""
> ""
> "
> { MERGEFIELD myfield }" }
>
> Peter Jamieson
> "Rob" <anon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:JzaEe.11863$vv6.8616@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I seem to recall in an earlier version (currently using XP 2002) there was
>>an option to omit emty fields. Am I missing it somewhere in 2002, if not
>>can anyone help.
>>
>> I have various documents, usually labels or envelopes which are connect
>> to either a database or a spread***. Sometime there may be a blank
>> field on a line on either the envelop or the label and I get an empty
>> line where this blank field would be.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>
>


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