Microsoft KB Archive/20384

Word: Leading Spaces Dropped from Merge Field

PSS ID Number: Q20384 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

When performing a print merge with Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, if the first character in a data document field is a space, it is dropped when the data document is merged with the main document. This is by design of the program.

To get the leading spaces in a data document to print when it is merged into the main document, do one of the following:

Replace each leading space with a hard space. A hard space character is created by pressing OPTION+SPACEBAR or COMMAND+SPACEBAR.

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Place quotation marks around each entry that contains a leading space or spaces.

= MORE INFORMATION =

In Word version 4.0, if a table is used for the data document, the leading spaces will be preserved.

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