[Peter Jamieson]

It's normal. I've never sat down and worked out exactly when Word completely
resolves the result and when it leaves the field in the document, but I
suspect the rules are fairly straightforward. Sometimes it is important to
know if, for example, you need to be able to refresh included items
(INCLUDETEXT/INCLUDEPICTURE) or if you need a field in a header/footer that
evaluates differently on each page in the result document.

Peter Jamieson

"Ed" wrote in message
...
Hello All,

I'm testing with Word 2003 and when I perform a mail merge that uses a
calculation field inside an IF field, the calculation field seems to
become
unlinked in the merged document.

That is, if I have something like this in my mail merge main document ...

{ = 2+3 }

{ IF { MERGEFIELD "MyName" } = "Ed" "{ = 2+3 }" "" }

... after the merge the first calculation is still a field but the one in
the IF field is just the value 5. If I select it, the right-click menu
doesn't have the field options and Alt+F9 leaves it as 5.

Is this just Word's "normal" behaviour or am I missing something?

Regards.

Ed