Suppress blank lines in Word when using IF Field codes

Question

I am using the following to conditionally output text in an MS Word document:

  { IF { DOCPROPERTY manual_version } = 1 "Version 1" "" \* MERGEFORMAT }
  { IF { DOCPROPERTY manual_version } = 2 "Version 2" "" \* MERGEFORMAT }
  { IF { DOCPROPERTY manual_version } = 3 "Version 3" "" \* MERGEFORMAT }

If manual_version is set to 3, then the text "Version 3". The previous IF field codes aren't supposed to output anything but they output a blank line. How do I change that?

Answer 1

Your entire field code construction could be reduced to:

{DOCPROPERTY manual_version \# "'Version '0;;"}