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Old April 9th, 2010, 04:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
UCHelp[_4_]
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Default Automatically delete a line if nothing on it??


Hey guys,
Is it possible to have MS Word automatically check a line for
characters and then delete that line if no characters are found on it
(except the null / space bar character obviously)?

I am using a Word XML 2003 document to import data and concatenate the
finished product into a word doc for mailing to customers.

For example, if I'm importing this:

{!contact.firstname;}
{!contact.lastname;}
{!contact.title;}

and the database I'm using *only* contains data for the *firstname* and
*title* (doesn't have his last name) of the person, then I'd want it to
print this:

John
Technical Production Assistant

NOT THIS:

John

Technical Production Assistant




So is there some special syntax or command I can put after the
importing element of each line (in the word 2003 xml file), so it will
delete that line if there are no real characters that are merged to it
in the final .doc file?

?




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