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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.

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