Restricting spaces from a merged field

[Sara]

Hello,

I need to restrict a space from some merged fields. For example, my letter
has "Dear (merged name),". The program I am merging the information from
automatically adds a space to some "merged names". I am thinking it need to
be an IF function, but I do not know how to restrict the one space. How
would I restrict one space when needed, but not affect all the other names
when an extra space is not inserted?
Thanks!
Sara

 

[macropod]

Hi Sara,

You'll need to change the data source to eliminate any unnecessary spaces in the data - Word's mailmerge process has no capacity for
this. An alternative approach would be to use Find/Replace after the mailmerge has been done to eliminate all double spaces in the
document.

Cheers