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I am having trouble trying to suppress the printing of blank lines, eg one line of address that may be missing, when printing mail merge documents. I'm using Word 2002 but can't find anywhere to 'check a box' to stop blank lines printing as was available in earlier versions. If anyone can help please?? -- Pip Langford |
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If you used to use an earlier version of Word and its blank line suppression
feature, a. it is enabled by default in Word 2002 b. if necessary, you can enable it using the old Mailmerge Helper dialog - Tools|Cutomize|Commands, select Category "All Commands", locate MailMergeHelper in the list of commands and drag it to a toolbar, then use it. c. unfortunately, Word 2002 differs from earlier Words as it does not suppress blank lines when they are nested inside other fields such as IF or INCLUDETEXT. Otherwise, what fields are you using to insert your address? If you are using an ADDRESSBLOCK field, try using the individual name/street/ etc. fields instead. Peter Jamieson "Pip Langford" wrote in message ... Hi I am having trouble trying to suppress the printing of blank lines, eg one line of address that may be missing, when printing mail merge documents. I'm using Word 2002 but can't find anywhere to 'check a box' to stop blank lines printing as was available in earlier versions. If anyone can help please?? -- Pip Langford |
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Thanks for your reply
That fixed the problem for me - I had to enable the old mail merge helper. Have a good day! -- Pip Langford "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If you used to use an earlier version of Word and its blank line suppression feature, a. it is enabled by default in Word 2002 b. if necessary, you can enable it using the old Mailmerge Helper dialog - Tools|Cutomize|Commands, select Category "All Commands", locate MailMergeHelper in the list of commands and drag it to a toolbar, then use it. c. unfortunately, Word 2002 differs from earlier Words as it does not suppress blank lines when they are nested inside other fields such as IF or INCLUDETEXT. Otherwise, what fields are you using to insert your address? If you are using an ADDRESSBLOCK field, try using the individual name/street/ etc. fields instead. Peter Jamieson "Pip Langford" wrote in message ... Hi I am having trouble trying to suppress the printing of blank lines, eg one line of address that may be missing, when printing mail merge documents. I'm using Word 2002 but can't find anywhere to 'check a box' to stop blank lines printing as was available in earlier versions. If anyone can help please?? -- Pip Langford |
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Thank you for this tip! It has been great! WE teachers HATE the new mail
merge and the students struggle with it. We have ditched the Task Pane and have been using Word table as the data source, Mail Merge toolbar as the guide. Now we can have the old way back again!!! Tx Jenny "Pip Langford" wrote in message ... Thanks for your reply That fixed the problem for me - I had to enable the old mail merge helper. Have a good day! -- Pip Langford "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If you used to use an earlier version of Word and its blank line suppression feature, a. it is enabled by default in Word 2002 b. if necessary, you can enable it using the old Mailmerge Helper dialog - Tools|Cutomize|Commands, select Category "All Commands", locate MailMergeHelper in the list of commands and drag it to a toolbar, then use it. c. unfortunately, Word 2002 differs from earlier Words as it does not suppress blank lines when they are nested inside other fields such as IF or INCLUDETEXT. Otherwise, what fields are you using to insert your address? If you are using an ADDRESSBLOCK field, try using the individual name/street/ etc. fields instead. Peter Jamieson "Pip Langford" wrote in message ... Hi I am having trouble trying to suppress the printing of blank lines, eg one line of address that may be missing, when printing mail merge documents. I'm using Word 2002 but can't find anywhere to 'check a box' to stop blank lines printing as was available in earlier versions. If anyone can help please?? -- Pip Langford |
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