Spaces Won't Take in Merge Document

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Larry R Harrison Jr - 17 Mar 2004 17:52 GMT

I have a Word 2003 document with a special kind of mail-merge--one which
breaks at zip codes. It looks like:

{ IF {MERGESEQ} = "1" "{MERGEFIELD "SellerZip"}
" ""} {SET Place1 {MERGEFIELD "SellerZip"}}
{IF {Place2}<>{Place1}"
{MERGEFIELD "SellerZip"}

{MERGEFIELD "SellerName"} {MERGEFIELD "SellerAddress"} {MERGEFIELD
"SellerCityState"}; ${MERGEFIELD "SaleAmount}" "{MERGEFIELD "SellerName"}
{MERGEFIELD "SellerAddress"} {MERGEFIELD "SellerCityState"}; ${MERGEFIELD
"SaleAmount"} " }
{SET Place2{MERGEFIELD "SellerZip"} }

It works fine, except that it "compresses" the data; it won't let me put
spaces between each field. I tried putting " " between each field, that
still didn't work. I even put - characters between each one, even THAT would
not show up.

Why won't they show up? Tips?

LRH

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Larry R Harrison Jr - 17 Mar 2004 18:11 GMT

Okay, never mind, I see why it was doing that. It wasn't bound to a data
source at the time I was doing it; when I bound it to a data source, it
worked.

Weird, but that seems to be what it does.

LRH

> I have a Word 2003 document with a special kind of mail-merge--one which
> breaks at zip codes. It looks like:
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> LRH

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 18 Mar 2004 00:48 GMT

I knew it had to work because the $ sign that you had in there worked.

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> Okay, never mind, I see why it was doing that. It wasn't bound to a data
> source at the time I was doing it; when I bound it to a data source, it
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>> LRH

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