Inserting additional documents using If Statements

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Julie DeCandia - 17 Jun 2004 15:37 GMT

How do I include an additional page to the main merge document if certain conditions apply? I have constructed an if statement to say that if a condition is met to insert the additional page if not do nothing. But I keep getting an additional blank page added to each record that does not meet the condition.
ex:
{ IF "{MERGEFIELD AidID }" = "Scholarship" { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\mydocs\\scholarship.doc" \* MERGEFORMAT }" "" }

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 18 Jun 2004 17:47 GMT

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> How do I include an additional page to the main merge document if certain conditions apply? I have constructed an if statement to say that if a condition is met to insert

the additional page if not do nothing. But I keep getting an additional blank page added
to each record that does not meet the condition.

> ex:
> { IF "{MERGEFIELD AidID }" = "Scholarship" { INCLUDETEXT "C:\\mydocs\\scholarship.doc" \* MERGEFORMAT }" "" }

Have you tested this by using "plain text" entries instead of the IncludeText field, just
to be sure it's not a problem with the true/false condition? Which version of Word are we
dealing with?

Note that one should usually turn this around:

{ IncludeText "C:\\mydocs\\scholarship.doc" { IF { mergefield AidID } = Scholarship
"BookmarkNameWithPage" "BookmarknameNoContent" } }

Word has a tendency to update fields from the inside out, which can give odd results with
IF fields under these circumstances.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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