No Blank Line Suppression When Printing Mail Merge Main Doc

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for Windows NT, version 6.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a

SYMPTOMS

If you create a MailMerge Main document, use the View Merge Data option when one of the mergefields is blank, and then print the main document, you get a blank line where the blank mergefield is, even though it looks correct on the screen.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Word versions listed above. This problem was corrected in Word 97 for Windows

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, disable background printing. To do so:

1. From the Tools menu, choose Options.



2. Select the Print tab.



3. Clear the Background Printing option.

Additional query words: 6.0 winword supress lines word6 7.0 word7 ntword word95 wordnt suppression

Keywords : kbprint kbmerge
Version : WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a; winnt:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
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