I forgot to add the first part: Two of my fields are:
{MERGEFIELD Client_1_Prefix}{MERGEFIELD Client_1_First \f " "}
> When I toggle my field codes to view my data during a mail merge using a Word
> table data source, I receive blank lines where there are empty fields. The
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> «Client_1_FirstName \b " " ». Do I have the syntax wrong? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A couple of issues here - you need to toggle the field code to add switches
so assuming yours is correct (and I haven't checked) then the correct syntax
would be {Mergefield Client_1_FirstName \b " " } Toggle back and the display
should be ?Client_1_FirstName?
Personally I prefer to use the brute force method of conditional fields to
insert data and the associated spaces or line feeds
{IF{Mergefield Client_1_FirstName} <> "" "
{Mergefield Client_1_FirstName} "}{Mergefield Client_1_LastName}
Here the construction checks for content and if there is any it moves down a
line and inserts first name and a space. The lastnamke field follows
immediately without a space. This method is easy to adapt to your
requirements and better still you can see what is happening and why. Use
CTRL+F9 to insert field boundaries {} when building the conditional fields
manually.

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> When I toggle my field codes to view my data during a mail merge
> using a Word table data source, I receive blank lines where there are
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> ?Client_1_FirstName \b " " ?. Do I have the syntax wrong? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
nettedavid - 06 Apr 2005 13:31 GMT
Thanks, Graham. I tried both ways - but when I toggled the field codes to
see the data and then toggled back to view the field codes I lost the
conditional field codes that I put in. Is it supposed to do that? I have
several fields to put conditional formatting in and it appears as though I
can't check the data to see if it works without losing the codes.
> A couple of issues here - you need to toggle the field code to add switches
> so assuming yours is correct (and I haven't checked) then the correct syntax
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> > «Client_1_FirstName \b " " ». Do I have the syntax wrong? Any help
> > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Graham Mayor - 06 Apr 2005 15:51 GMT
ALT+F9 will toggle the display and yes some of the field construction
information will 'disappear' when you toggle back (though if you click the
<<ABC>> button on the merge toolbar
(http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_labels_with_word_xp.htm ) you can view
the resulting data and step through the records to ascertain if the result
is what you intended.

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> Thanks, Graham. I tried both ways - but when I toggled the field
> codes to see the data and then toggled back to view the field codes I
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>>> ?Client_1_FirstName \b " " ?. Do I have the syntax wrong? Any help
>>> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
nettedavid - 06 Apr 2005 19:11 GMT
It works now, thanks!
> ALT+F9 will toggle the display and yes some of the field construction
> information will 'disappear' when you toggle back (though if you click the
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> >>> «Client_1_FirstName \b " " ». Do I have the syntax wrong? Any help
> >>> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!