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IF Statement "Placeholders" Disappear when Merge Codes Turned On
I created a merge main document with a number of tables optionally inserted
using IF statements. I hid the merge codes (using Alt-F9), thus hiding the tables, and forwarded the document to another employee for editing. I didn't know the other employee knew very little about merge. Not seeing the tables they added them to the document again. When the document came back to me I found that the extra tables are visible with merge codes hidden, but hidden when merge codes are visible. I interpret this as meaning Word considers the extra tables to be within the "IF" merge code. I've called them "placeholders" because their behaviour gives the appearance of such functionality: a block of text which appears when merge codes are hidden to show the user where a merge code is in the document, but is not the block of text inserted by either the True or False parts of the IF statement. For example a placeholder might contain the text, "A User Settings table is inserted here when documents are merged, if a Desktop or Notebook is being replaced." I'm speculating about these "placeholders". I've never seen this functionality documented. Is this behaviour supposed to happen? Is it an intended functionality as I've described? Is there documentation of it somewhere on Microsoft's sites? |
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