FYI blank line suppression does not work with fields nested in other fields
(such as INCLUDETEXT, IF) in Word 2002/2003. Or at least some versions of
it. Although I think it did work with Word 2000,
a. I probably mostly merged to new documents, not the printer
b. various aspects of field behaviour have been changed with service packs
and security updates in Word 2000. This /could/ be one of them. If so, it
could be that the only way you will get these fields to function correctly
is to use the other, more complex technique of inserting blank lines when
the fields are not empty, e.g.
{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield1 }" = ""
"" "{ MERGEFIELD myfield1 }
" }{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield2 }" = ""
"" "{ MERGEFIELD myfield2 }
" }
I'm not sure I can get at my Word 2000 system right now but when I can I'll
take a look. Which Word SR/SP are you using?
Peter Jamieson
"Peter" wrote in message
...
Thanks again Ed.
Really appreciate all your advice!
I am using Ver 2000.
I have tried various things you have mentioned, but no luck. The code I
have
I initially set with information from Microsoft, combined with your
initial
suggestions. I have a link to a screen shot I took of the code I am using.
I
did try keying in the code as you showed Pearl but the documents would not
come up. The code in the link gives me the documents, just will not
supress
blank lines unless I merge to a new document.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...g?t=1177710767
Thanks again . . .
Peter