I believe that particular problem occurs when the { SET } field has been
inserted but not actually executed. At that point there is no "Check"
bookmark, so the REF field causes an error. After the { SET } field has been
executed once, the error disappears.

Peter Jamieson
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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I have experienced receiving that error message when using a field
construction such as:

{ IF { REF Check } "{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice }
"
"{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice }¶
" }{ SET Check "{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice }" }

But after clicking on the OK button to dismiss the error message, the
merge executes as required.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Shelley78" wrote in message
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Merging a document and I get the following Mail Merge message: A field
calculation error occured in record 1.