[Roger Whitehead]

Using Word 2002, Excel 2002:

Excel is the external data source
Where a date field is blank, the merge field returns the current date. I've
tried to eliminate with
{IF {MERGEFIELD thatdate}="" "" "Date reported: {MERGEFIELD thatdate \@
etc}"}, but the result is the same.

Thanks for listening..!

Roger
Shaftesbury (UK)