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Word mail merge from Goldmine
How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on
one line are blank? |
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I don't have Goldmine here, and frankly I think Goldmine is popular and
idiosyncratic enough that I think their own support facilities ought to have the answers to these questions, but as far as I know, when you "merge" from Goldmine it isn't a standard Word merge and you have special DDE fields in Word etc. Let us know if that isn't so. But if so, a. does each DDE field bring across a different part of the address, or does the whole address come across in one DDE field? b. if each bit of address comes separately, does it make any difference if you nest each field inside another field so that you see something like { IF { DDE goldmine topic field } = "" "" " { DDE goldmine topic field }" } (use Alt-F9 to see all this {} stuff; use ctrl-F9 to insert new {} if you need them) Peter Jamieson "Mike at CommNet" Mike at wrote in message ... How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on one line are blank? |
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Goldmine has its own hosted newsgroups. go to gmnews.goldmine.com and select
public.goldmine6.general and ask your question there. Chris "Mike at CommNet" Mike at wrote in message ... How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on one line are blank? |
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BTW what chris means is that you need to access the NNTP news server
gmnews.goldmine.com, then find the newsgroup public.goldmine6.general on that server. In other words, you need to look for http://gmnews.goldmine.com probably won't get you anywhere, nntp://gmnews.goldmine.com might, but I doubt it. Good luck. Peter Jamieson "Chris Curtin" wrote in message ... Goldmine has its own hosted newsgroups. go to gmnews.goldmine.com and select public.goldmine6.general and ask your question there. Chris "Mike at CommNet" Mike at wrote in message ... How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on one line are blank? |
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I have used Goldmine for 8+ years and do a heavy amount of letter merging in
it. I am no expert, but one merge group you can use merges these data points in the following layout: contact name company address city, state zip If there is no company in the record then a blank line is not generated in word 2000 or XP. Chris PS: The Goldmine news groups are very helpful and well attended. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... BTW what chris means is that you need to access the NNTP news server gmnews.goldmine.com, then find the newsgroup public.goldmine6.general on that server. In other words, you need to look for http://gmnews.goldmine.com probably won't get you anywhere, nntp://gmnews.goldmine.com might, but I doubt it. Good luck. Peter Jamieson "Chris Curtin" wrote in message ... Goldmine has its own hosted newsgroups. go to gmnews.goldmine.com and select public.goldmine6.general and ask your question there. Chris "Mike at CommNet" Mike at wrote in message ... How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on one line are blank? |
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If Goldmine is doing a /merge/ then I certainly agree that blank line
removal would happen by default in Word 2000, XP. Normally it should happen in Word 2003 as well, but there has been one change since either Word 2000 or Word XP (I forget which), which is that line removal does not occur if these fields are nested inside another field suchas an IF or an INCLUDETEXT. The other thing I'm aware of about Goldmine is that it has, or used to have, a way to create letters that uses DDE fields rather than a Merge, in which case things would probably be rather different. I leave the original questioner to shed light on that if necessary! Peter Jamieson "Chris Curtin" wrote in message ... I have used Goldmine for 8+ years and do a heavy amount of letter merging in it. I am no expert, but one merge group you can use merges these data points in the following layout: contact name company address city, state zip If there is no company in the record then a blank line is not generated in word 2000 or XP. Chris PS: The Goldmine news groups are very helpful and well attended. "Peter Jamieson" wrote in message ... BTW what chris means is that you need to access the NNTP news server gmnews.goldmine.com, then find the newsgroup public.goldmine6.general on that server. In other words, you need to look for http://gmnews.goldmine.com probably won't get you anywhere, nntp://gmnews.goldmine.com might, but I doubt it. Good luck. Peter Jamieson "Chris Curtin" wrote in message ... Goldmine has its own hosted newsgroups. go to gmnews.goldmine.com and select public.goldmine6.general and ask your question there. Chris "Mike at CommNet" Mike at wrote in message ... How can I suppress blank lines in a mail merge from Goldmine when fields on one line are blank? |
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