Peter Hillier-Brook's detective work uncovered the reason (or at least one reason) why some people are able to get the "hidden section" technique of suppressing blank lines in mail-merged labels and other documents to work, and others can't. Here is the notice I have just added to the "Using Mail Merge" chapter in the Writer Guide:
------- Note – Very Important! Be sure your field names (or column headings in a spreadsheet) do not contain spaces or the technique described here does not work. Normally you would enclose a field name in quotation marks if the name contains a space. However, a quoted string is not acceptable in the Condition box for a hidden section (see Figure 40 and Figure 42) and an un-quoted string stops on the first space in the field name, effectively making the condition always True and causing the section to be hidden even if the field has data in it. ------- I have uploaded the revised ODT and PDF files to the OOoAuthors and Docs websites, but I have not regenerated the full Writer Guide to contain the revised chapter. Cheers, Jean
