On 9 Dec 2005 at 10:41, CarlP wrote: > WinXP Home, OO 2, Athlon 1.7GHz > > Folks, I've yet to get any help on this, and it'll make or break my > ability to use OO for our organization. BTW, I'm a staff of one > part-timer, and I've burned a lot of time on this already. > > My problem is with hiding or collapsing certain address lines when there > is no data in that field. I've read a ton about how to do this (using > the Hidden Paragraph function with a "not" or "!" or "NEQ" condition) > but the "hidden" line remains hidden whether or not there is data in the > field on that line. So it seems like hiding works, but the condition > does not. There's no other info on that line (e.g. no other fields, no > other text, no spaces, etc.).
I'm no expert, but if no-one else has replied........ I've just tried making a trivial mail-merge document, which I assume is where you're coming from. I've put one database field from my address list on each line, and made each line a separate /section/ ( select line, then Insert|Section). I've used format|section to set each section to be hidden with a condition like Addresses.Sheet1.Address2 eq "" This appears to have the required effect - at least, if I run the mailmerge wizard and preview for each record, lines come and go in a reasonable way. OTOH, I commented quite a few months ago on this list that I felt this was all long-winded, opaque and inflexible. Didn't have much effect though :-) Is this the sort of thing you're doing? -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
