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Einy - 27 Mar 2006 12:44 GMT

Hi all,

I have a catalogue merge in publisher 2003. I need to show an image when a
certain field has a certain value, and nothing if it has another value.

Is this possible and how? I searched MSDN until I started dreaming of it!!
Nothing!! Can anyone help here??

Thank you.

Einy.

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Ed Bennett - 27 Mar 2006 15:44 GMT

Einy <Einy@discussions.microsoft.com> was very recently heard to utter:

> I have a catalogue merge in publisher 2003. I need to show an image
> when a certain field has a certain value, and nothing if it has
> another value.
>
> Is this possible and how? I searched MSDN until I started dreaming of
> it!! Nothing!! Can anyone help here??

There is no easy way to do this.

I can't think of any way to leverage Publisher's existing Catalog Merge
features to accomplish this. The only real way I can think of is to create
your own custom merge engine in VBA or a COM-compatible language. You would
have to manually connect to a data source, construct the publication
programmatically, adding a number of copies of a set of shapes, and adding
the database data. Then at this stage you could also toggle whether the
object you need is visible or not.

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