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Re: Word help

Subject: Re: Word help
From: Beth Friedman <bjf -at- wavefront -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:19:34 -0500


In our previous episode at 09:46 AM 10/9/02, Anita Lewis wrote:

Hello all -
A coworker has been struggling with the following problem. She has
searched the help files, and has not found any answers.

She's creating a merge primary doc, and she wants to create a
conditional statement... If "country" = "USA", do not use the country
field. In other words, leave country blank, unless the country is
something other than USA, in which case, she wants country to print.
She does not want to skip the record altogether, which is the only
option Word is giving her.

Does anyone know of the solution? Thanks in advance -

The IF field has all your co-worker needs. The syntax is IF <text or field> [operator such as = or <>] <text or field> THEN <text you want inserted> ELSE <text you want inserted>.

So for this case it would be IF "country" = "USA" "" "country"

Where "" is the blank text that should be used, and the country code is inserted for all the other countries.


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