Suppress Blank Lines in Tables?

[JohnJohn]

Hello. I have a mail merge document with 5 rows (and 2 columns) that may or
may not have data in them. Does anyone know of any way (short of writing
macro code) to suppress the blank lines from printing in the table?

I KNOW you can suppress blank lines by not putting them into a table, but I
need to be able to left-align the values in the first column and right-align
the values in the second column. So alternatively, if anyone knows how I can
do THAT instead of suppressing blank rows in the table, I'll welcome that
suggestion too.

Thanks!
John

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

For only 5 rows, it's hardly worth the effort to try and automate it.

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[JohnJohn]

I couldn't agree more. The problem is that my client couldn't agree less. :|

I have to figure this out quickly.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I assume that the main document contains more than just this table which
will rule out using a catalog or directory type mail merge. If that were
not the case, you might be able to use the following in the first cell of a
one row table in a catalog or directory type mail merge main document

{ IF { MERGEFIELD FirstMergeField } = "" { IF { MERGEFIELD
SecondMergeField } = "" { NEXT RECORD } { MERGEFIELD FirstMergeField } } {
MERGEFIELD FirstMergeField } }

Otherwise, you will need to use a macro which was not wanted.

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[JohnJohn]

Well that's good thinking! I'll give it a shot. Thanks.