Calculation from Tokens

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Todd - 20 Oct 2005 08:33 GMT

Hi,

I have a document which uses tokens from our system we have 3 tokens
"charge", "tax1" , "tax2" i need to be able do a calculation of charge - tax1
-tax2 and put the result on the document.
There is no token available to do this in our system so word will have to do
the calc.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 20 Oct 2005 18:45 GMT

Sorry, what do you mean by "tokens"?

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> Hi,
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> do
> the calc.

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Todd - 21 Oct 2005 07:36 GMT

Sorry - its a merge field from our DB2 Database the only problem is there is
not a field in our database that caters for this - so word has to do if
possible

> Hi,
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> There is no token available to do this in our system so word will have to do
> the calc.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 21 Oct 2005 09:30 GMT

{ = { MERGEFIELD charge } - { MERGEFIELD tax1 } - { MERGEFIELD tax2 } }

You must use Ctrl + F9 for each pair of field delimiters { }

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> Sorry - its a merge field from our DB2 Database the only problem is there
> is
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>> do
>> the calc.

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