Hi - looking for some advice to prevent baldness as I'm tearing my hair out with this issue!


I've got a complex mail merge with nested IFs but have simplified below to provide an example as I can't work out where to put the /b "" & the paragraph marker from the line above

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{ if {MERGEFIELD BONUS_SCHEME } = "Regional" "{ MERGEFIELD Regionname }% Region" }
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If the BONUS_SCHEME merge field doesn't contain 'Regional" then this is what I see

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so I want to remove the blank line - but for the life of me I can't work out where to put the switch - can anyone help please?!

Simple:
text text text{IF{MERGEFIELD BONUS_SCHEME}= "Regional" "¶
{MERGEFIELD Regionname}% Region"}¶
text text text¶

where the ¶ characters represent real paragraph/line breaks.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

blummin' brilliant - thank you so much - and no need to use /b etc which is what I'd been trying to do based on lots of online posts.
Genius!!

The \b and \f switches are only useful for controlling whether to output something dependent in whether the parent field - in this case BONUS_SCHEME has data; they can't be used to differentiate data. See the Mailmerge Empty Line Suppression topic in the Mailmerge Tips & Tricks 'Sticky' thread at the top of this forum: https://www.msofficeforums.com/mail-...ps-tricks.html

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

yes, I can see now that makes absolute sense - and what a treasure trove of knowledge in the tips & tricks thread, wow!
thanks for your help, it's much appreciated