Leave the mergefield fields blank and remove the TableStart / TableEnd tag

[damiankienczkowski]

Hello,

I would like to leave the mergeField fields blank in the document but remove the TableStart / TableEnd tags. Just like in the picture below. How can I do it? I used the “doc.MailMerge.CleanupOptions” option but it removes entire Tablestart / TableEnd regions from me

example.png (3.1 KB)

[sergey.lobanov]

@damiankienczkowski,
To remove a field from your document, please use the Field.Remove() method. For example, if you need to remove the first field from your document, you can use the following code:

Field field = doc.Range.Fields[0];
field.Remove();

For more information please see the following article:

Updating and Removing a Field

The following code deletes all the merge fields, that contain “TableStart” or “TableEnd” in their tag. You can use it in your case.

foreach (FieldStart fieldStart in doc.GetChildNodes(NodeType.FieldStart, true))
{
    var fieldCode = fieldStart.GetField().GetFieldCode();
    if (fieldStart.FieldType.Equals(FieldType.FieldMergeField) && (fieldCode.Contains("TableStart") || (fieldCode.Contains("TableEnd"))))
        fieldStart.GetField().Remove();
}