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Old 04-09-2014, 12:54 PM
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So i have a small issue. I am doing a mail merge for a letter with a number of different records all at once. The layout is as follows:

Dear <firstname> <lastname>
<company name>
<Address>

Not all the records contain a company name. What I would like to do is when the company cell is empty in the excel merge spreadsheet for word to remove that line all together rather than giving me an error or leaving it blank.



Can someone let me know if this is possible and how i can go about it.
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1. Select your «CompanyName» field and press Shift-F9. You should see something like:
{ MEREGFIELD CompanyName }.
2. Edit the field code so you get:
{ MEREGFIELD CompanyName \ f ""}
3. Drag the paragraph/line break following the field into it, between the "", so you get:
{ MEREGFIELD CompanyName \ f "¶
"}
4. Press F9 to update the field code. You should now see:
«FirstName» «LastName»¶
«CompanyName»«Address»¶
5. Run the mailmerge.
The \f switch tells Word to insert the specified character if the field isn't empty. So, if the field is empty, you don't get the paragraph/line break.
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Old 04-10-2014, 06:19 AM
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Thanks Macropod! This totally worked
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