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Steve Wylie - 14 Dec 2004 11:42 GMT

Is there a way I can use an IF statement to tell the length of a
particular merge field? I'm thinking of something like
LEN(mergefield). Does such a thing exist in Word? I can't even think
that a macro would help me...

Steve Wylie

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macropod - 15 Dec 2004 10:10 GMT

Hi Steve,

Not with text strings. You could use math on numeric values, though, by
testing the value against powers of 10 to calculate the number of
(non-decimal) digits. This could be extended to testing decimals also, but
that's a bit more work.

Cheers

> Is there a way I can use an IF statement to tell the length of a
> particular merge field? I'm thinking of something like
> LEN(mergefield). Does such a thing exist in Word? I can't even think
> that a macro would help me...
>
> Steve Wylie

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