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[Brw]

I have an If...Then statement in a MS Word Document.

If a Merged field is True, it will display a certain
sentence. If false, it will not display it. The sentence
is about 4 lines in size.

If false, then there is a big ugly gap in the middle of my
page. Is there a way to set the document so that the
bottom paragraph will 'butt' up with the previous
paragraph even though there's a hidden If...Then statement
in the middle?

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Brw,

I have an If...Then statement in a MS Word Document.

If a Merged field is True, it will display a certain
sentence. If false, it will not display it. The sentence
is about 4 lines in size.

If false, then there is a big ugly gap in the middle of my
page. Is there a way to set the document so that the
bottom paragraph will 'butt' up with the previous
paragraph even though there's a hidden If...Then statement
in the middle?

Normally, this is exactly how I'd expect Word to deal with an
"empty" If/Then...

1) Which version of Word are we dealing with?

2) Are you setting the fields into table cells, frames or
text boxes?

3) Do you have a Vertical Alignment other than "Top" set in
File/Pages Setup/Layout?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Peter Jamieson]

page. Is there a way to set the document so that the

bottom paragraph will 'butt' up with the previous
paragraph even though there's a hidden If...Then statement
in the middle?

This is what should happen by default. Can you be more speficic about what
is in your IF field? (And which version of Word are you using?