Need to control presence of a mail merge field

[Thomas Wootten]

Using mail merge with an access database, I find that if
DOB (which is a date/time field in the database) is blank
in the database, it displays 12:00:00 AM in the Word
document. How can I make it absent without altering the
database? This problem only occurs with the DOB field, not
text fields.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Thomas,

Which version of Word are we dealing with?

Using mail merge with an access database, I find that if
DOB (which is a date/time field in the database) is blank
in the database, it displays 12:00:00 AM in the Word
document. How can I make it absent without altering the
database? This problem only occurs with the DOB field, not
text fields.

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

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