Saving the hyperlinks as formatted autotext entries and inserting autotext
fields via your conditional field should work.

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Mark V wrote:
Trying to include hyperlinks in Mail Merge IF...THEN...ELSE
statements to have different hyperlinks appear in the resulting Mail
Merge to Email based on values in other Mail Merge fields. For
instance, to have different support or product hyperlinks appear for
different recipients depending on the version of OS or S/W that they
are running.

Have tried a number of approaches including:
- Manually adding the hyperlinks within the IF...THEN...ELSE
statement by using CNTL-F9 and typing a complete HYPERLINK statement.
- Creating a hyperlink elsewhere in the document (formatted as
desired with Display Text, Screen Tip and Address) and pasting it
into the IF...THEN...ELSE statement.
- Creating formatted text and hyperlinks in a separate document and
using an INCLUDETEXT statement within the IF...THEN...ELSE statement
to add this document to the Mail Merge document

In each case, the hyperlink either doesn't appear or only the text of
the hyperlink appears.

Example:

Depending on the version of Office contained in the Mail Merge field
Office_Version, an IF...THEN...ELSE statement would be used to
display a message with relevant hyperlinks.

If Office_Version = "Office 2000", the message might display "Systems
running this version must upgrade to either Office XP or Office
2003.".

If Office_Version = "Office XP", the message might display "Systems
running this version must upgrade to Office 2003.".

Using the following IF...THEN...ELSE statement should, in theory
accomplish this, but doesn't:

{ IF { MERGEFIELD Office_Version } = "Office 2000" "Systems running
this version must upgrade to either { HYPERLINK
"http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/xp/default.asp" } or {
HYPERLINK
"http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/default.mspx" }."
"Systems running this version must upgrade to { HYPERLINK
"http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/default.mspx" }."
}

I am using Microsoft Office Word 2003 (11.5604.5703) from Microsoft
Office Professional Edition 2003.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mark