[John]

I have a form file in Word 2000 that merges with an Excel Database. One of
my fields is a telephone number.

I want to do two things with that telephone number. One format as (000)
000-0000 and if that Excel telephone field is blank when the merge takes
place, I do not want the telephone number to print at all. I want the field
to appear blank on the final merged document. However, if there is a
telephone number in that field then I want the telephone number to print in
the format shown above.

I have tried several versions of an if statement and cannot seem to obtain
the correct statement.

Here is what I have tried:

{IF{MERGEFIELD EmployerPhone}"""{MERGEFIELD EmployerPhone}"}

Also tried:

{IF{MERGEFIELD EmployerPhone\#"(000)'-'000'-'0000"}"""{MERGEFIELD
EmployerPhone\#"(000)'-'000'-'0000"}"}

and also:

{MERGEFIELD EmployerPhone\#"(000)'-'000'-'0000"}{IF{MERGEFIELD
EmployerPhone\#"(000)'-'000'-'0000"}"""{MERGEFIELD
EmployerPhone\#"(000)'-'000'-'0000"}"}

What am I doing wrong. I have tried merging with files that contain
telephone numbers and are blank. My results are not consistent. I can get
it to print in the format I want depending on the above statement variation,
but not consistently blank when the field is blank and not consistently print
the phone number when the filed is not blank.

Help!!!

AJ

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John R.