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inserting quotation marks with IF
I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert
quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The criteria is simple: if "Details" is not blank, insert """ (that's a single quotation mark) in front of "Summary", with a similar statement at the end of "Summary". I've tried both the IF, Then, Else... box and manually inserting the statement myself. Neither is working. I'm not getting quotation marks under any circumstances. I'm guessing it's some confusion surrounding having three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this? Adding spaces doesn't help (of course). |
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inserting quotation marks with IF
Use either
{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" "" "{ QUOTE 34 }Summary{ QUOTE 34 }" } or if you need a lot of them it might be clearer to use something like { SET q { QUOTE 34 } } at the beginning of the document then use { q } where you need the qutoe mark, e.g. { IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" "" "{ q }Summary{ q }" } (All the {} have to be the special field braces that you can insert using ctrl-F9 - you cna't just type them on the keyboard.) Peter Jamieson "hbear" wrote in message ... I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The criteria is simple: if "Details" is not blank, insert """ (that's a single quotation mark) in front of "Summary", with a similar statement at the end of "Summary". I've tried both the IF, Then, Else... box and manually inserting the statement myself. Neither is working. I'm not getting quotation marks under any circumstances. I'm guessing it's some confusion surrounding having three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this? Adding spaces doesn't help (of course). |
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inserting quotation marks with IF
Thank you! Fabulous information!
"Peter Jamieson" wrote: Use either { IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" "" "{ QUOTE 34 }Summary{ QUOTE 34 }" } or if you need a lot of them it might be clearer to use something like { SET q { QUOTE 34 } } at the beginning of the document then use { q } where you need the qutoe mark, e.g. { IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" "" "{ q }Summary{ q }" } (All the {} have to be the special field braces that you can insert using ctrl-F9 - you cna't just type them on the keyboard.) Peter Jamieson "hbear" wrote in message ... I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The criteria is simple: if "Details" is not blank, insert """ (that's a single quotation mark) in front of "Summary", with a similar statement at the end of "Summary". I've tried both the IF, Then, Else... box and manually inserting the statement myself. Neither is working. I'm not getting quotation marks under any circumstances. I'm guessing it's some confusion surrounding having three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this? Adding spaces doesn't help (of course). |
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