I considered that, but then I got to thinking that I SHOULD be able to do
this in Word, and it's always possible I may need this to work in the future,
so I would really like to see this done.

"Doug Robbins" wrote:

Save yourself all of the trouble and get Excel to add the two values
together.

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"XianProf" wrote in message
...
I checked, and the brackets are ctrl-f9 brackets. The = sign is there as
well. If it helps, I am using Office XP Pro and my data source is an
Excel
file.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You still haven't entered the fields correctly. The curly brackets are
set
with CTRL+F9 (three pairs) and of course you have to use the field names
from your data file.

If you have two numbers with a plus sign select the lot, press CTRL+F9 to
make the lot into a field and add the = after the first bracket.

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XianProf wrote:
I ran into this same issue, but when I used this formula, I got a
!Syntax Error, - field result. To make sure I had the fields typed
in properly, I got rid of just the equal sign, and then the field
result gave me my 2 numbers with a plus sign between them (but not
the actual sum).

Marc

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The syntax is
{ ={ Mergefield Fieldname1 } + { Mergefield Fieldname2 } }
where each pair of brackets is set with CTRL+F9

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Fuad wrote:
Dear All,

I am trying to sum up two fields in Word Mail Merge, but it seems
does not work. Does anyone have got any idea that can help me.

Thanks

Fuad