Merge for Labels: suppress white spaces?

I use data merge for address labels and so far it's going pretty well.
The only thing that I couldn't find how to do is suppress unused white spaces. For instance data fields in one line are
<<First Name>> <<Last Name>> <<Department>>
all with one blank in-between. Now if a record for instance has no First and Last Name, I end up with a line that starts with two blanks and the the Job Description.
Is there any way to suppress the leading blanks?
Thomas

I don't think you can do this within the merge feature.
You could do a search and replace afterwards of course: search for a return followed by a space, for example, or use a simple GREP to search for a return followed by white space:
something like find "\r\s+" replace with "\r".
Another way would be to take care of it in the source file, if you have control of it; FileMaker, for example, can be made to produce calculated fields to take care of this kind of thing.

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import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
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import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
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import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
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