CarlP wrote:
Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:41 -0500, 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.).
For further troubleshooting beyond trying different syntax for the
condition, I've tried creating a new merge document from scratch
using the same data source. That too has the same problem.
What could I possibly be doing wrong, and how can I resolve this? I
really want to use OO.
Hi Carl,
According to my knowledgebase, the hidden paragraph technique is known
NOT to work with version 2.0 at this stage.
Regards
Jonathon
Interesting, and thanks. This is the first reference I've seen about
this issue. It's a bit disappointing, and I'd hope the user guides,
tech articles, and related materials I waded through would explain the
correct way to do this, not the way that doesn't work. Also, this
seems to me to be an important basic function of an office suite, so
basic it's hard to believe they'd release 2.0 without it.
Carl
I think that the point is that this is a BUG and it should not have been
released without it.
Can you download and try one of the version 2.01 releease candidates and
see if it is fixed there?
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