If it was available in 2002 and removed from 2003, that would explain it, as
I'm running 2003 as well.

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"Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message
...
You might be right (and I don't have XP installed at the moment - only
2K3)
but I've not found it myself and I've seen this question asked a lot of
times so it's at least as well hidden as the old dialog

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I could have sworn the option to suppress blank lines was available
somewhere in Word 2002 as well (through the Advanced settings in the
Select
Recipients dialog, I think), but I haven't had much luck finding it
lately;
it's easier for me to create my own IF field.

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"Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message
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Hi Julie,

The Mail Merge Wizard is Word 2003's replacement for the old MailMerge
Helper.

The option to Not print blank lines is only available via the Merge
command
from the old Helper.

You can either run the Helper or you can run the (old) Merge when
using
the
(new) Wizard

The commands to do both are available in the Customize Dialog Commands
tab
under All Commands (see earlier post)

The Helper is called MailMergeHelper, the old Merge is called Merge
(as
below)

If you use the Merge... button (wherever you put it) you should see
the
option.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"julie" wrote in message
...
Tony, Would you explain where/when I would see the "Don't Print
Blank
Line
when Data Fields are Empty?" I'm merging from an Excel file, using
Word
2003
and and Merge wizard and am not seeing this option.
Thanks,
--
Julie

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

You could do this easily in Word 2000.

The Word 2000 Merge command is available in XP so try using that.

Select Tools Customize Commands (tab)
Under Categories (on the left), Select All Commands
Scroll down Commands (on the right) and select MailMerge
Click and Drag it to somewhere useful - The Mail Merge Toolbar,
perhaps
It will show up as a button with the legend Merge...
Close the Customize Dialog

Instead of using the awkward Task Pane, Click the Merge button to
do
the
merge.
The Dialog will give the option (actually the default) to "Don't
print
blank
line when data fields are empty"
Just make sure the option you want is checked and press Merge.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"DiTab1" wrote in message
...
Please help. I am trying to import/mail merge data from Acess
2002
to MS
Word 2002. The data forms 3 colums of merge fields like so:

Name Number Letter
Name1 Number1 Letter1
Name2 Number2 Letter2

(etc, etc) What I would like to do (I have the fields through
Name10,
etc)
is only have the merge print the fields that have data in them
and
supress
any blank lines. Any assistance on this would be greatly
appreciated!

Thanks!
Di