Graham's corrected my missing brace error.

The multiline layout is simply to prevent news reader software from breaking
up the text in a way that makes it difficult to understand. It's simpler if
it isn't broken up into lines but should work in the multiline format
because all the new lines are outside the result values, i.e. they will only
show up in the document when you are looking at the field codes, not the
field results.

Peter Jamieson

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I tried your code and it only prints the first one, the rest are all
blank. I noticed that there was one } missing so what I typed in is
this:

{ IF " { MERGEFIELD Course }" = ""
"" "{ SET myCourse { MERGEFIELD Course }"
}{REF myCourse}}

Do I have to have it broken up as you typed it or should it be all on
one line?

Also does the spacing between {} have to be as you typed it?



Peter Jamieson wrote:
It may be simpler than I assumed.

Let's suppose you have a column in your Excel sheet called Course that is
only filled in on the first row for each course.

In your Mailmerge main document, you could use

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD Course }" = ""
"" "{ SET myCourse { MERGEFIELD Course }"
}{ REF myCourse }

where all the {} are the special field code braces you can insert using
ctrl-F9, not the ones you can type directly on the keyboard.

Peter Jamieson
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Yes that's basically how I have it setup. I thought about filling in
course name and date for each candidate but I just wanted to see if
there was another way.