The preferred way of handling this would be to not create the unwanted rows in the first place. How you go about doing that depends on whether you need a variable number of rows or whether some required rows simply have no data (e.g. a row for a cell phone but the record doesn't have one).

The alternative would be to use a macro to delete, not just hide, the rows post-merge.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]