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Default how to eliminate a space when the field is blank in a merge

Concatenate will not insert a blank:

put hello in A1
put world in C1
make no entries in B1
=A1&B1&C1
will display:
helloworld
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"Beyersdorf" wrote:

when you merge a letter and one of the fields is blank how do you eliminate
the space that occurs when there is no data:
Mr. Gary A. Ward
Mr. Gary two spaces Ward
in the second instance how do I keep excel from putting an extra space
because it has no data from the middle initial field?

 
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