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From: perl@ptsfa.UUCP (R. Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word-Mail Merge
Message-ID: <3990@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 04:29:36 GMT
References: <4VswMRy00VoD9Ek06j@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: perl@ptsfa.UUCP (R. Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Marketing
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Summary: You & Ezra Shapiro

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. 


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