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From: moe@athena.mit.edu (Moezeddin K. Karimeddiny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word-Mail Merge
Summary: you Can do it
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Date: 9 Jan 88 21:24:00 GMT
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In article <3990@ptsfa.UUCP> perl@ptsfa.UUCP (R. Perlman) writes:
>In article <4VswMRy00VoD9Ek06j@andrew.cmu.edu> mw28+@andrew.cmu.edu 
>(Michael Benjamin Weinberger) writes:
>>I have a question about the Mail Merge on Microsoft Word and would
>>appreciate any help I can get. 
>>
>>It seems that when you have a record that does not contain one of the fields
>>you have set up, Word still generates a line feed when inserting the record
>>, at the point where you have left the empty field. Is there anyway to
>>suppress this line-feed? A conditional perhaps? Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>You're not the only one with this complaint.  In "Real-World
>Answers (BYTE Jan. '88, Pg 205) Ezra Shapiro goes on for 2 
>paragraphs about the same problem with Word 3.01.  His solution: 
>(after trying Micorsoft Works, FileMaker Plus, Double Helix & 
>Omnis 3 Plus) was to use Reflex Plus.  You may not have an answer 
>to your problem, but at least you have company. 
>
 I think this should work for you (I got this from Feb 86 issue of MacWorld
page 196, under section "Open Window"). You have to omit the merge characters
after the ELSE statements.  For example, if an address contains a field called
Title positioned between the Name and Company fields, but John Smith's database
record contains no title, this would print a blank line between John Smith's
name and his company name:
	<<name>>
	<<IF position>><<position>>
	<<ELSE>>
	<<ENDIF>><<IF organization>><<organization>>
	<<ELSE>>
	<<ENDIF>><<street address>>
	<<city>>,<<state>> <<zip>>

 You should change to this:
	<<name>>
	<<IF position>><<position>>
	<<ELSE
	<<ENDIF>><<IF organization>><<organization>>
	<<ELSE
	<<ENDIF>><<street address>>
	<<city>>,<<state>> <<zip>>

 Hope this works.
 Moe