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Removing Unmerged PDF Fields

The document provides 3 examples of removing paragraphs, table rows, and mail merge ranges from a document that contain merge fields but where none of the fields were actually merged. It explains that a field is considered merged if its data source value is defined, not null, and not an empty string. The examples show how to remove content containing unmerged fields from headers, tables, and mail merge documents.

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Removing Unmerged PDF Fields

The document provides 3 examples of removing paragraphs, table rows, and mail merge ranges from a document that contain merge fields but where none of the fields were actually merged. It explains that a field is considered merged if its data source value is defined, not null, and not an empty string. The examples show how to remove content containing unmerged fields from headers, tables, and mail merge documents.

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Example 1 shows how to remove paragraphs which contain merge fields but none of those fields was

actually merged. Field is considered to be merged if its data source value is defined, not null and not
empty string.

Start of Example 1

Header: My header
Second choice: I have chosen second choice.

End of Example 1
Example 2 shows how to remove table rows which contain merge fields but none of those fields was
actually merged. This is useful if you are using table to arrange field labels and actual fields like in the
following example.

Start of Example 2

Name: John Doe

Email: [Link]@[Link]

Country: USA

End of Example 2
Example 3 shows how to remove mail merge range which contains merge fields but none of those fields
was actually merged. This is useful if you also want to delete additional content before, after or in the
middle of merge field paragraphs, like Note paragraph in the following example.

Start of Example 3

Number of items: 2

Header: My header 1
Content: My content 1.
Second line of my content 1.

Note: This is some note that goes after every header / content pair.

Header: My header 3
Content: My content 3.
Second line of my content 3.

Note: This is some note that goes after every header / content pair.

End of Example 3

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