Easiest way to allow quotes in conditional merge field

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Sherrie - 09 Sep 2004 17:10 GMT

How would I include something in quotes within
the "Text1" section below?
{ IF YourMF = "A""Text1"{IF YourMF = "B""Text1""Text2"} }

This doesn't seem to work:
{ IF YourMF = "A""In this section I want one word
in "quotes""{IF YourMF = "B""Text1""Text2"} }

I have used two apostrophes side by side, but I was
wondering if there's an easier way.

Thanks,

Sherrie

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Paul Lautman - 10 Sep 2004 12:18 GMT

Well it SHOULD be as easy as escaping the " with the \ but this is broken on
recent versions of word.

The answer appears to be using {SYMBOL 34} although you may need to surround
it with a {QUOTE ...} field depending on your version of word.

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq.htm

> How would I include something in quotes within
> the "Text1" section below?
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> Sherrie

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Sherrie - 10 Sep 2004 16:37 GMT

Thank you for your help. It helped me find another
alternative to the double apostrophes. I'm using Word
2002, so { Symbol 147 } and { Symbol 148 } seem to be the
way to do it.

Sherrie

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>Well it SHOULD be as easy as escaping the " with the \ but this is broken on
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>See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq.htm

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