Thanks, Graham. I thought that the non-breaking space might do the trick,
but testing it now, I find that it doesn't.

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Doug

Given the space is that going to work without the speech marks?

{ IF { MERGEFIELD MI } "" "{ MERGEFIELD MI} { MERGEFIELD LastName }" "{
MERGEFIELD LastName }" }

might be better in the circumstances?

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Doug Robbins wrote:
Use an If...Then...Else field that returns the MI and the LastName if
the MI exists or just returns the LastName if it does not.

{ IF { MERGEFIELD "MI" } "" { MERGEFIELD "MI"} { MERGEFIELD
"LastName" } { MERGEFIELD "LastName" } }

Use a non-breaking space between { MERGEFIELD "MI"} and { MERGEFIELD
"LastName" } so that it gets treated as the result for the "true"
condition.


Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Gene" wrote in message
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«Sal» «FirstName» «MI» «LastName» «Suffix» I have excess spacing
between the
middle initial and last name when the person does not have a middle
initial.