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From: mms@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (John J. Chew III)
Date: Fri, 22-Jan-88 01:53:11 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan22.015311.11880@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: The Poslfit Committee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Word-Mail Merge
Summary: here's how
References: <4VswMRy00VoD9Ek06j@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: mms@gpu.utcs.UUCP (John J. Chew III)

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.

Yes.  Try something like:

...blahblahblah<IF field=""><ELSE><field>
<ENDIF>blahdeblahdeblah...

jjc
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