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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? ? -- UCHelp |
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Automatically delete a line if nothing on it??
You asked very similar questions a few days ago and received answers
from myself and Doug. Maybe you could post back into those threads as to what was wrong, because a. it's not obvious what is different about what you are attempting now b. you're using language that you're not explaining - e.g. "I'm importing {!contact.lastname;}" Is this a merge field? It certainly doesn't look like a typical one. And Word can't use XML data sources for mailmerges "out of the box". So are you doing a mail merge? Or are you doing some kind of XML transformation? Or what? The thing is that Word does empty line elimination as standard when it performs a mail merge /and/ the empty line results from a line that has nothing but empty { MERGEFIELD } fields (and perhaps in some other circumstances), but it doesn't have an automatic facility to eliminate any old empty line, even during a merge. Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk On 09/04/2010 16:18, UCHelp wrote: 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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