Eliminating blank lines in export "satya" <satya.mahesh[ at ]gmail.com> 05.03.2006 22:22:03 Hi All, Whenever I try to export contents to a word document through an application, I see blank lines between headings when a heading is empty. If the heading is empty I do not want it to be displayed. Is there anyway this could be achieved in a word document. For e.g: Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 This section deals with ....... Here since Heading 1 and Heading 2 do not have any contents in it I do not want them to be displayed in the word document. I want the output as below: Heading 3 This section deals with ....... Regards, satya

Re: Eliminating blank lines in export Word Heretic <myfullname[ at ]iinet.net.au> 07.03.2006 15:05:31 G'day "satya" <satya.mahesh[ at ]gmail.com>, You would need to write some VBA. See word.mvps.org/FAQs for more information on writing VBA. Said VBA would look through the paragraphs collection: if a para is a heading: if the flag is not on: turn the flag on else (flag is on) delete back to the previous heading end if end if if the para is not a heading AND contains text, turn the flag off Steve Hudson - Word Heretic steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment) Without prejudice satya reckoned: [Quoted Text] >Hi All, > > Whenever I try to export contents to a word document through an >application, I see blank lines between headings when a heading is >empty. If the heading is empty I do not want it to be displayed. Is >there anyway this could be achieved in a word document. For e.g: > >Heading 1 >Heading 2 >Heading 3 >This section deals with ....... > >Here since Heading 1 and Heading 2 do not have any contents in it I do >not want them to be displayed in the word document. I want the output >as below: > >Heading 3 >This section deals with ....... > > >Regards, >satya

Re: Eliminating blank lines in export "satya" <satya.mahesh[ at ]gmail.com> 07.03.2006 21:39:18 Hi Steve, Thank you for replying. The requirement has changed a little. I want a macro which "eliminates blank lines in export (between headings and when a heading is empty)". For e.g: Heading1 Heading2 Heading3 This is text under Heading 3 Output should be: Heading1 Heading2 Heading3 This is text under Heading 3 Since heading heading 3 has content I want one blank space before the content otherwise there should not be a blank. I did write one macro which deletes blank lines. What it is doing is displaying the results as follows: Heading1 Heading2 Heading3 This is text under Heading 3 In order to solve this I inserted one dummy field(Ctl + F9) before the paragraph under heading 3,hid that field and ran my macro so it worked. However, I want it to dynamically recognise that there is text and insert a blank line.Any ideas as to how it could be done? Appreciate if anyone could provide me with a solution to this problem. Thanks & Regards, satya

Re: Eliminating blank lines in export "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 07.03.2006 22:30:22 Instead of creating a "blank line" by inserting an empty paragraph, format your body text with Space Before or your heading style with Space After. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "satya" <satya.mahesh[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message news:1141767558.845314.290530[ at ]z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi Steve, > > Thank you for replying. The requirement has changed a little. I want a > macro which "eliminates blank lines in export > (between headings and when a heading is empty)". For e.g: > > Heading1 > > Heading2 > > Heading3 > > This is text under Heading 3 > > Output should be: > > Heading1 > Heading2 > Heading3 > > This is text under Heading 3 > > Since heading heading 3 has content I want one blank space before the > content otherwise there should not be a blank. I did write one macro > which deletes blank lines. What it is doing is displaying the results > as follows: > > Heading1 > Heading2 > Heading3 > This is text under Heading 3 > > In order to solve this I inserted one dummy field(Ctl + F9) before the > paragraph under heading 3,hid that field and ran my macro so it worked. > However, I want it to dynamically recognise that there is text and > insert a blank line.Any ideas as to how it could be done? Appreciate if > anyone could provide me with a solution to this problem. > > Thanks & Regards, > satya >