Hi Brenda,

Instead of:
{IF{MERGEFIELD Buyer2Name}<> " " {IF{MERGEFIELD Buyer3Name}<> " " ", " " and " } ""}
you might be able to use field coding like:
{IF{MERGEFIELD Buyer2Name }= "??*" {IF{MERGEFIELD Buyer3Name}= "??*" ", " " and "}}
Basically, the above field code tests whether the mergefields contain at least two characters (on the assumption you don't have any one-character buyer names).

I doubt MS has any plans to update DDE and, even if they did, there's no reason to suppose it would fix this problem.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]