Merge Field With Underlines

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Steve - 30 Jul 2003 20:38 GMT

I am doing a mailmerge out of an Access database. One of the fields is
True/False. When the value is True, I would like the mailmerge field to contain
three underlines with a capitol X in the middle. When the value is False, I
would like the mailmerge field to just contain three underlines. How do I setup
the merge field to do this?

Thanks!

Steve

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Peter Jamieson - 30 Jul 2003 22:49 GMT

Use an { IF } field with e.g.

{ IF { MERGEFIELD myfield } = 0 "___" "_X_" }

The precise test you need depends on which method Word is using to connect
to Access.

If it's DDE (the default in Word 2000 and earlier), you probably need

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield }" = "True" "___" "_X_" }

All the curly braces {} need to be the special field braces you can enter
using ctrl-F9

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Peter Jamieson
MS Word MVP

> I am doing a mailmerge out of an Access database. One of the fields is
> True/False. When the value is True, I would like the mailmerge field to contain
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> Steve

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