Is there a limit on nested IF statements in WORD 2003?

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Art McMahon - 01 Nov 2004 20:12 GMT

I am doing a mail merge that can have 46 If, then, else statements.
It seems that after record 20 I start getting "fields nested too deeply".
That does not happen to me at one site where I work but does at another site.
The one where it works I am running windows XP, office 2003 (no service pack)
At the site where it fails I am running windows XP, office 2003 service pack
1.
Anyone ever hear of such a thing?

Thanks,
Art McMahon
Drexel University

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 02 Nov 2004 11:37 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QXJ0IE1jTWFob24=?=,

19 nested layers is, indeed, the official limit and has been since WinWord was
created. If it's not happening somewhere, I'd consider that to be a bug.

Often, you can use a series of IF fields one next to the other to get around
this limitation. Just have the last "false" entry in a preceding set be an
empty string: "" then no one will know that set of IF fields is even there.

> I am doing a mail merge that can have 46 If, then, else statements.
> It seems that after record 20 I start getting "fields nested too deeply".
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> 1.
> Anyone ever hear of such a thing?

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

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