The chances are that you have typed the inner { MERGEFIELD } using the
regular {} characters on the keyboard.
However, both pairs of {} need to be the special "field code braces" you can
create using ctrl-F9
Peter Jamieson
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Hi,
I read through some of the threads regarding MERGEFIELD syntax and can
not for the life of me get this to work.
I am following microsoft article: 90488
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=90488
In it clearly gives the syntax as:
{= ({MERGEFIELD order} + 100)}
In my document I have one line showing the amound and I want to show 5%
of the amount on the next line.
Every single document has an amount but all the percentage lines have
!Syntax Error, {
My code looks like this
{ MERGEFIELD "amount" \# $#,### }
{ =({ MERGEFIELD "amount"}*.05) \# $#,### }
As mentioned before there are no problems on the first line. The
second line I get !Syntax Error, {.
Thank you,
-Markus