Efvee Posted August 11, 2021 Posted August 11, 2021 Hello everyone, I would like to suggest that Publisher's Data Merge feature be enhanced with the ability to remove blank entries. However, simply removing the blank line for a text merge can leave some messy things behind. I have an idea that we could use a special markup to tell Publisher what to remove with a blank field. That is, we define "field units" with double braces {{ }}. That way the whole "field unit" can be removed if a field is empty. Case 1: "<field1> <field2>" Simple blank removal results for empty field1 (note the space before field2) : " <field2>" Proposed "smart" solution using special notation: "{{<field1> }}<field2>" Results: "<field2>" Case 2: {{<field1> }}<field2>{{ <field3>}} <field5> {{<field4> or if you prefer: }}<field5> Here we have the option to choose to remove some text adjacent to a field (field4) and remove a line break before a field (field3) and preserve the line break (field5). A simple "Remove blank lines" checkbox would not take into account cases where you might like a line break preserved when a field is missing. I hope this makes sense! Raggedmane 1 Quote
Larry Fjeldstrom Posted January 31 Posted January 31 If all we can get would be the simple Remove Blank Lines box, that would at least make me happy Quote
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