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Peter Jamieson Peter Jamieson is offline
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Default Multiple criteria for mergefield

Luckily, in this case the inclusions are { EMBED } fields and wrapping IF
fields around them seems to work OK, although it wouldn't surprise me if
some types of object embedded OK and others did not, particularly in a table
cell.

Spelling out the field codes isn't quite so clear because EMBED codes for a
particular type of object all look the same, e.g. in this case I think the
user would need

{ IF "[ MERGEFIELD A }" = "Y" "{ IF { MERGEFIELD B }" = "Y" "{ EMBED
Word.Picture.8 }" "{ EMBED Word.Picture.8 }" }" "{ EMBED Word.Picture.8 }" }

in the first cell and perhaps

{ IF "[ MERGEFIELD A }{ MERGEFIELD B }" = "YY" "{ EMBED Word.Picture.8 }"
"" }

in "another cell", depending on what the actual requirement is. I don't know
of a way to get the correct EMBEDs in the correct places other either
a. doing the embed, displaying the IF field using Alt-F9, and
copying/pasting the EMBED into the correct part of the IF field or
b. (maybe) putting the insertion point in the correct part of the IF and
doing the embed there.

Peter Jamieson

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Hmmm.... IncludePicture fields do not usually work when included as a
conditional field result. The IncludePicture field has to be at the top of
the tree - see the workaround at
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm#image

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD A } = "Y" { INCLUDEPICTURE "DRIVE:\\PATH\\FILENAME"
} { IF { MERGEFIELD B = "Y" { INCLUDEPICTURE
"DRIVE:\\PATH\\ANOTHERFILENAME" } "" } }

You need to use Ctrl+F9 to insert the field delimiters { } and Alt+F9
to toggle the display of field codes and F9 to update the fields.

See the "Graphics from data base" item under the "Special merges"
section of fellow MVP Cindy Meister's website at

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindy...r/MergFram.htm



"gilbertj" u23713@uwe wrote in message news:62b4c4c1f7074@uwe...
I have a spreadsheet as a data source. The data in each field is
either a Y
or N. There could be more than one Yes for a record.

A B C D E
1 Y N N N N
2 N Y N N N
3 Y Y N N N
etc

In my merge document, I want to place an embedded object in a table
cell depending on the criteria in the spreadsheet: { If {
mergefield A } = "Y" "
{EMBED Word.Picture.8 }" }

In addition, I would also like to place a different embedded object
if A=N and B=Y in the same cell in merge document.
If A=Y and B=Y, then I would like to place an embedded object in the
first cell in the merge document and a new embedded object in
another cell in the
merge document.

I hope there's some programming language using the "if then"
statements. Thanks