Word 2000 Tables & Mail Merge

[BetsyC]

I have placed a table within a merge document. The cells in the table have
merge fields in them.

When an entire row within the table does NOT have any data from the merge
fields, I'd like the rows underneath to pull up, making the table have less
rows...similar to the mail merge function where blank lines don't print.

Will the tables function do that in Word 2000?

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QmV0c3lD?=,

I have placed a table within a merge document. The cells in the table have
merge fields in them.

When an entire row within the table does NOT have any data from the merge
fields, I'd like the rows underneath to pull up, making the table have less
rows...similar to the mail merge function where blank lines don't print.

Will the tables function do that in Word 2000?

No, there's nothing in mail merge that will hide entire table rows. If you
were doing a catalog merge, then you'd set up just one row with merge fields.
You'd filter the data source to leave out the records that would generate
empty rows.

Other than that, you'd have to process the merge result after the merge...

But I have to wonder if what you're doing is a "one-to-many" type of merge? In
that case, there are ways to get what you want, but you'd probably have to
restructure how the data is stored.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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