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Mailmerge Directory to Document Containing Table
I am trying to populate a directory using mail merge where the data layout on the page is formatted using a table. Every time a record is merged, Word is appending a carriage return between each row in the table, creating what I assume to be a page of individual tables each with a blank line between them - is there any way to stop it doing this? The received wisdom seems to be to use VB to parse the document after creation but I'm not particularly keen to do this.
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I forgot to mention - I have inserted conditional field codes at the head of the page, to add a page break when a particular field subject changes - it's the carriage return after this code fragment that seems to being replicated however if I remove it, the code drops into the first table cell and is then no longer executed so it seems to be mandatory, however if it is removed the blank line does then vanish.
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A directory merge will repeat the fixed text and layout from the main document for each record, except for the final (mandatory) paragraph mark, so mark sure that there isn't another one - use the Show/Hide button (¶) to see.