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Default Mail merge into columns with variable length data?

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:25:10 +1000, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:

Use a Directory, (or Catalog in versions before Word XP) type mail merge
main document with a one row three column table in it and insert the
mergefields into the cells of that table.


OK, I'm getting somewhere - I think.

The following adds the text "Tel:" and the phone number for records with a
phone number, but I can only check this by manually going to the next record
in the Preview group on the ribbon. Despite the Next Record it will only
insert a single entry, not the whole database.

Surname: HisName [CR]
{IF {MERGEFIELD TEL}"" "Tel:" ""}Tel [CR]
Next Record