Microsoft KB Archive/110304

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No Blank Line Suppression When Printing Mail Merge Main Doc

Article ID: 110304

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Word 6.0a
  • Microsoft Word 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Word 95a



This article was previously published under Q110304

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 KB110304