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GastonFranzini@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2006 16:13 GMT

Hi,
I need some conditional fields in a word document depending on an value
in excel.
Is there a way of showing or not showing some formated text?
for example:

If X is female, then a line should appear but if X is Male then another
line should appear, the table where I have the gender info is on an
Excel table.
Thanks.

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Charles Kenyon - 04 Apr 2006 18:36 GMT

Yes. This is relatively easy to do so long as you standardize the condition
information. Case makes a difference; Male is not the same as male.

See the gender toolbar at http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm for
examples of gender-conditional fields. In this case, they are based on
document properties rather than merge fields, but you can delete the
{DOCPROPERTY Gender} field and insert a {MergeField Gender} to make them
function in a merge.

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> Hi,
> I need some conditional fields in a word document depending on an value
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> Excel table.
> Thanks.

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GastonFranzini@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2006 19:06 GMT

Thanks a Lot Charles,
Can I use a value in an excel value? rather than Mail merge?
Is there a way of not showing a sentence based in an excel value?
Thanks in advance

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Charles Kenyon - 04 Apr 2006 21:36 GMT

I use mailmerge to pull values from Excel. When I use mailmerge, it is only
on one record at a time.
Short of mailmerge, I don't know how to get something from Excel in a form
where a field can evaluate it. That may just be because I haven't tried.

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> Thanks a Lot Charles,
> Can I use a value in an excel value? rather than Mail merge?
> Is there a way of not showing a sentence based in an excel value?
> Thanks in advance

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GastonFranzini@gmail.com - 04 Apr 2006 21:56 GMT

Thanks, I´ll work on it using mail merge in just one field.

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