Supress blank lines in DOCPROPERTY field

Jay:

Great, I'm going to explore those links in a little while while my fieldcode
taste-buds are still afire.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Hi Mary

Glad it finally worked out.

As for the answers being in the Help -- ha! The Help is somewhat
bare-bones
on the subject, even when you can figure out the right search terms (and
the
search engine has been getting worse through successive releases -- Office
2003 is the worst yet, and the MVPs have made sure MS knows it).

In the Word 2000 Help, read the entries "Field codes: If field" and
"Examples of IF fields". To understand some of the examples, you'll need
"Field codes: = (Formula) field". Within that topic, there are links for
"Operators" and "Functions" that are helpful. You might also get some use
from the topic "Field codes: Compare field".

The word.mvps.org site has some pages that discuss editing field codes,
usually incidental to solving some other problem. For examples, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Numbering/PageNumbering.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MMergeIfFields.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...ixCaptions.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...nPgEndChap.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFm...teFilename.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Mary wrote:
Jay, that did it! Thanks for being so persistent.
Is there somewhere I can learn more about creating and editing field
codes? -- I'm sure all the answers are somewhere within Word's Help
but I never know the right questions to ask it.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Hi Mary

One more try... I had a suspicion you were putting in a blank instead
of deleting the property, but your description used different terms
in different places and I wasn't sure.

In the field code I gave you, take out the error message (Error!
Unknown document property name.) and put in a single space between
the quotes. In other words, you're changing the IF condition from
'if the field result is not the error message' to 'if the field
result is not a single space character'. The rest of the field code
remains the same.

Note that if you type two or more spaces in the property dialog, the
"blank" line (spaces and a paragraph mark) will appear. If it's just
one space, both the space and the paragraph mark will disappear.

"Mary" wrote:

Hi Jay,

Thank you for going to so much trouble. I did have the field codes
exactly as you show them in your example. In your doc, I can't
completely delete the value in the CCadd2 property -- I can replace
it with a single space but this still allow a paragraph mark to
print. The only way I can get it to behave is to delete the
property name itself. While that has the desired effect in the
document you provided, I'm not sure it will work in mine. I'm not
the owner of the file. It's a proposal template and on first
creating a new file based on the template, it's set up so that the
user is first presented with a Document Properties window. Fill-ins
on this screen are used to populate fields in the document itself.
But if CCadd2 (or any other value) is not filled in, it will result
in an empty paragraph and the property itself cannot be deleted on
this window. Deleting it by going into File--Properties--Custom,
results in an error message.

So I'm guessing it's best to just live with the paragraph marks and
delete them manually.