Inserting text based on the first character of a field

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Habitat Calgary - 30 Jul 2008 22:06 GMT

Can I ask If...Then...Else to insert the word Dear before any preferred
salutation that starts with 'M'?

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Peter Jamieson - 30 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT

Try

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield \*Upper }" = "M*" "Dear " "" }{ MERGEFIELD
myfield }

(You can use various types of field instead of { MERGEFIELD myfield }
depending on what you need). All the {} need to be the special field code
braces that you can insert using ctrl-F9.

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> Can I ask If...Then...Else to insert the word Dear before any preferred
> salutation that starts with 'M'?

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