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Doug Robbins - Word MVP Doug Robbins - Word MVP is offline
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You need to use an If...then...Else field construction.

If you look through the responses to some of the previous posts in this
newsgroup, you will find many examples.

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"aniya_powell" u39030@uwe wrote in message news:7b2a10c02e16e@uwe...
I have completed a merge, but upon viewing the results, have empty spaces
where I had inserted fields.

All fields do not apply to all people receiving the letter. Example; one
client has one spouse and three kids (Dear Maggie, Michael, Jorge and
John
but another has no spouse, one kid Dear John . How can I get these
extra spaces to not appear where the spouses or kids names would have
been
for the other client?

I thought I knew how to use merge, but I am SO confused....