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Uwe’s remove blank lines without changing stylesĪpp.findTextPreferences = app.changeTextPreferences = null Īpp.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null Īpp.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = “^\\s+” Īpp.findGrepPreferences = app. Uwe kindly wrote a script to combine the operations into one action: Click on the Start Import/Merge icon to begin the mail merge process. 'Donation amount') instead of the numbering. In the bullets and numbering options, type the prefix (e.g.

Create two paragraph styles for 'amount' and 'date'. Make sure 'Remove blank lines for empty fields' is selected in the DM options. If the design you choose has text, click on the text box first and then click on the Import Data / Mail Merge icon. Include the symbol in Excel or whatever program you use.

A plain text Find/Change for and replace with nothing will remove them. Instead you need to first remove the field markers. Open your InDesign document and the Data Merge panel via Window > Utilities > Data Merge > Select Data Source. The first step is to NOT use the built in blank line removal so all of the paragraphs are maintained, but you cannot at that point simply remove the empty paragraphs after the merge or you wind up with changed styles. We recently had a user with this problem on the Adobe U2U forum, and thanks to Uwe Laubender we’ve come up with a much better solution. This happens because InDesign leaves in place the filed markers for the empty lines and moves them into the subsequent paragraphs, taking their paragraph styles with them.

Maybe a script I tried one that deletes blank tables, but that didnt seem to work after the data-merge was run. Any creative ideas to hide that table I was thinking there might be a way to hide the entire text field, if not the table. Using the delete empty lines option can cause your paragraphs to have the wrong style applied (with local formatting applied so you might not notice until you try to make a TOC). Post-Datamerge, with the resulting empty cells.