Hey guys,
Have, what I think is, a strange problem.
We are trying to do our wedding invites off a mail merge with a line spacing before and after the invitee of 1.5
To solve all the cases of the different types of people we invite (Singles, married couples and couples with different last name to each other) I have created the following field code (apologies for the entirely random field names)

With the fields
firstname - first name of first guest
optional1 - last name of first guest if different to last name of second guest
firstname1 - first name of second guest, if exists
optional2 - last name of second guest or last name of married couple

After applying the mail merge everything works great except for the case of a Single guest. The line spacing (of 1.5) disappears. If I select that line and change it back to a line spacing of 1.0 then hover over the 1.5 option it displays the line spacing correctly but when I click on the option it reverts back, on the screen, to a line spacing of 1.0 even though the line spacing dialogue box says it is set to 1.5. I had a work around of setting the False section of the IF statement to <CR> but this is a bit of a hack and does not give the correct spacing.



Any ideas?

Thanks

A generalised construction would be:
{MERGEFIELD First_Name} {IF{MERGEFIELD Spouse_First_Name}= "" {MERGEFIELD Last_Name} {IF{MERGEFIELD Spouse_Last_Name}= {MERGEFIELD Last_Name} "and {MERGEFIELD Spouse_First_Name} {MERGEFIELD Last_Name}" {IF{MERGEFIELD Spouse_Last_Name}= "" "and {MERGEFIELD Spouse_First_Name} {MERGEFIELD Last_Name}" "{MERGEFIELD Last_Name} and {MERGEFIELD Spouse_First_Name} {MERGEFIELD Spouse_Last_Name}"}}}
Note: You need to have all of the spaces indicated in the field code.

For a macro to convert field text strings like the above to working field codes, see: http://www.gmayor.com/export_field.htm#TextToField

In your case, you could substitute 'firstname' for 'First_Name' and 'firstname1' for 'Spouse_First_Name', but I'm not sure what 'optional1' and 'optional2' represent, so I can't comment on what you want there or whether they should be substituted for 'Last_Name' and 'Spouse_Last_Name'. As for the paragraph break, you should be able to insert one after each 'and' in the field code and format those and the paragraph break following the field with the attributes you require.

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Paul Edstein
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Thank you very much for that,
It works perfectly
Much appreciated