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Extra pages in a mail merge
Brock 11/3/2008 11:51:02 PM
I have a mail merge packet for lack of a better term. It is a list of
documents that i use to deal with individual cases. Every packet will include
certain forms and then based on the case extra forms are added with an if
statement.
{If {MERGEFIELD Extraneous}= "True" {INCLUDE TEXT "lists a file name"}}

This works fine. Problem is that if Extraneous is not "True" all i get is a
blank page that's printed at the printer. I've fooled around with this and
can't get it to work and be formatted correctly without placing the if
statement on a seperate page. How do i either put all if statements on the
same page and get them to print as sepreate docs or delete the blank pages
when they print?
Re: Extra pages in a mail merge
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" <dkr[ at ]REMOVECAPSmvps.org> 11/4/2008 1:40:46 AM
Use

{If {MERGEFIELD Extraneous}= "True" "[Ctrl+Enter]{INCLUDE TEXT "lists a file
name"}" }

and in place of [Ctrl+Enter] press Ctrl+Enter


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"Brock" <Brock[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text]
>I have a mail merge packet for lack of a better term. It is a list of
> documents that i use to deal with individual cases. Every packet will
> include
> certain forms and then based on the case extra forms are added with an if
> statement.
> {If {MERGEFIELD Extraneous}= "True" {INCLUDE TEXT "lists a file name"}}
>
> This works fine. Problem is that if Extraneous is not "True" all i get is
> a
> blank page that's printed at the printer. I've fooled around with this and
> can't get it to work and be formatted correctly without placing the if
> statement on a seperate page. How do i either put all if statements on the
> same page and get them to print as sepreate docs or delete the blank pages
> when they print?


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