Blank Line Removal in Nested IF

[janetyjanet]

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?!

[macropod]

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

where the ¶ characters represent real paragraph/line breaks.

[janetyjanet]

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!!

[macropod]

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

[janetyjanet]

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