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hbear - 28 Jun 2007 15:56 GMT

I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert
quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The
criteria is simple: if "Details" is not blank, insert """ (that's a single
quotation mark) in front of "Summary", with a similar statement at the end of
"Summary". I've tried both the IF, Then, Else... box and manually inserting
the statement myself. Neither is working. I'm not getting quotation marks
under any circumstances. I'm guessing it's some confusion surrounding having
three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this?
Adding spaces doesn't help (of course).

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Peter Jamieson - 28 Jun 2007 17:50 GMT

Use either

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" <> "" "{ QUOTE 34 }Summary{ QUOTE 34 }" }

or if you need a lot of them it might be clearer to use something like

{ SET q { QUOTE 34 } }

at the beginning of the document then use { q } where you need the qutoe
mark, e.g.

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" <> "" "{ q }Summary{ q }" }

(All the {} have to be the special field braces that you can insert using
ctrl-F9 - you cna't just type them on the keyboard.)

Peter Jamieson

> I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert
> quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The
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> three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this?
> Adding spaces doesn't help (of course).

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hbear - 28 Jun 2007 18:24 GMT

Thank you! Fabulous information!

> Use either
>
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> > three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this?
> > Adding spaces doesn't help (of course).

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