Eliminating blank lines in export

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satya - 05 Mar 2006 22:22 GMT

Hi All,

Whenever I try to export contents to a word document through an
application, I see blank lines between headings when a heading is
empty. If the heading is empty I do not want it to be displayed. Is
there anyway this could be achieved in a word document. For e.g:

Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
This section deals with .......

Here since Heading 1 and Heading 2 do not have any contents in it I do
not want them to be displayed in the word document. I want the output
as below:

Heading 3
This section deals with .......

Regards,
satya

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Word Heretic - 07 Mar 2006 14:52 GMT

G'day "satya" <satya.mahesh@gmail.com>,

You would need to write some VBA. See word.mvps.org/FAQs for more
information on writing VBA. Said VBA would look through the paragraphs
collection:

if a para is a heading:
if the flag is not on:
turn the flag on
else (flag is on)
delete back to the previous heading
end if
end if

if the para is not a heading AND contains text, turn the flag off

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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Without prejudice

satya reckoned:

>Hi All,
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>Regards,
>satya

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satya - 07 Mar 2006 21:39 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thank you for replying. The requirement has changed a little. I want a
macro which "eliminates blank lines in export
(between headings and when a heading is empty)". For e.g:

Heading1

Heading2

Heading3

This is text under Heading 3

Output should be:

Heading1
Heading2
Heading3

This is text under Heading 3

Since heading heading 3 has content I want one blank space before the
content otherwise there should not be a blank. I did write one macro
which deletes blank lines. What it is doing is displaying the results
as follows:

Heading1
Heading2
Heading3
This is text under Heading 3

In order to solve this I inserted one dummy field(Ctl + F9) before the
paragraph under heading 3,hid that field and ran my macro so it worked.
However, I want it to dynamically recognise that there is text and
insert a blank line.Any ideas as to how it could be done? Appreciate if
anyone could provide me with a solution to this problem.

Thanks & Regards,
satya

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 07 Mar 2006 22:30 GMT

Instead of creating a "blank line" by inserting an empty paragraph, format
your body text with Space Before or your heading style with Space After.

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> Hi Steve,
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> Thanks & Regards,
> satya

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