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I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is
given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. |
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ODog Trying NewTricks wrote:
I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Fabulous! Thank you much.
"Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Jay
This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field
lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Jay,
That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty
paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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A zero result indicates that the STYLEREF field is trying to reference
the (non-existing) number of an un-numbered paragraph. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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Many thanks for the help with this, my doc is nearly perfect. This is my first IF statement in a Reference. One last tweak, is it possible to return "" if there is no reference to MyStyle? I get this error otherwise: Error! No text of specified style in document. Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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I'll refer you again to the technique in the post at the very bottom
of this thread... Write an IF field that compares the value of the StyleRef field to the error message you quoted, and displays an empty string if they're equal, or the value of the StyleRef otherwise. Embed that entire IF field within the IF field of my most recent reply, in place of the second {StyleRef MyStyle} field. It gets long and complicated, but it works. On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:01 -0700, Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, Many thanks for the help with this, my doc is nearly perfect. This is my first IF statement in a Reference. One last tweak, is it possible to return "" if there is no reference to MyStyle? I get this error otherwise: Error! No text of specified style in document. Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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You don't even need the full error message
{ IF{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" } "Error!*" "{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" }" } will do the trick -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jay Freedman wrote: I'll refer you again to the technique in the post at the very bottom of this thread... Write an IF field that compares the value of the StyleRef field to the error message you quoted, and displays an empty string if they're equal, or the value of the StyleRef otherwise. Embed that entire IF field within the IF field of my most recent reply, in place of the second {StyleRef MyStyle} field. It gets long and complicated, but it works. On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:01 -0700, Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, Many thanks for the help with this, my doc is nearly perfect. This is my first IF statement in a Reference. One last tweak, is it possible to return "" if there is no reference to MyStyle? I get this error otherwise: Error! No text of specified style in document. Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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Wow that is pretty tight. Is there any way to do an OR statement? I'd like to supress the STYLEREF if there is an Error or a "0" value. "Graham Mayor" wrote: You don't even need the full error message { IF{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" } "Error!*" "{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" }" } will do the trick -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jay Freedman wrote: I'll refer you again to the technique in the post at the very bottom of this thread... Write an IF field that compares the value of the StyleRef field to the error message you quoted, and displays an empty string if they're equal, or the value of the StyleRef otherwise. Embed that entire IF field within the IF field of my most recent reply, in place of the second {StyleRef MyStyle} field. It gets long and complicated, but it works. On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:01 -0700, Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, Many thanks for the help with this, my doc is nearly perfect. This is my first IF statement in a Reference. One last tweak, is it possible to return "" if there is no reference to MyStyle? I get this error otherwise: Error! No text of specified style in document. Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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{ IF{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" } "Error!*" " { IF{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" } 0
"{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" }" }" } should do the trick -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Graham, Wow that is pretty tight. Is there any way to do an OR statement? I'd like to supress the STYLEREF if there is an Error or a "0" value. "Graham Mayor" wrote: You don't even need the full error message { IF{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" } "Error!*" "{ STYLEREF "MyStyle" }" } will do the trick -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jay Freedman wrote: I'll refer you again to the technique in the post at the very bottom of this thread... Write an IF field that compares the value of the StyleRef field to the error message you quoted, and displays an empty string if they're equal, or the value of the StyleRef otherwise. Embed that entire IF field within the IF field of my most recent reply, in place of the second {StyleRef MyStyle} field. It gets long and complicated, but it works. On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:36:01 -0700, Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, Many thanks for the help with this, my doc is nearly perfect. This is my first IF statement in a Reference. One last tweak, is it possible to return "" if there is no reference to MyStyle? I get this error otherwise: Error! No text of specified style in document. Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: I don't understand where you're getting a '0' from. If I have an empty paragraph of the referenced style (the numbering is turned off, and nothing appears but the ¶ symbol when nonprinting characters are shown), then the StyleRef field in the footer doesn't show anything. Still, there is a technique to work around the '0' if you can't get rid of it, similar to the one that started this thread. You need nested fields (use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field braces): { If {StyleRef MyStyle} = "0" "" {StyleRef MyStyle} } This says if the result of the StyleRef field is the character "0", then display nothing; otherwise display the result of the StyleRef field. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay, That works great, now I have a '0' in the reference; can I switch that off? "Jay Freedman" wrote: It doesn't appear that you can do that. The Help topic on the StyleRef field lists all the switches that control where it locates the style and what results it shows. There isn't any switch that shows what page the style appears on, which is what you'd need in order to suppress the field result. Possibly you could put an empty paragraph of the Numbered List style, marked to skip numbering, on the page after the most recent "real" numbered paragraph. That would be very fragile and hard to maintain, though, and it might mess up the numbering order. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Zadok @ Port of Seattle wrote: Jay This is oh so close to what I'm looking for. I am doing a StyleRef in the footer of my document, showing the user where they are in a huge numbered list. Some of the later pages don't have any of the 'Numbered List" style in use and so the formula just returns the last known instance of that style, even if it was pages ago. Is it possible to get a blank if there is no use of that style on my certain page? Zadok "Jay Freedman" wrote: ODog Trying NewTricks wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. If you can live with a single space for the value of the ref field when the ask field isn't answered, you can put a space character between the quotes in the \d switch of the ask field. (You can then remove the \d switch from the ref field, because it'll never have any effect.) If you need to eliminate the space (maybe to make other things on the same line stay put), it's possible but more complicated. You have to replace the ref field with this: {if "{ref created}" = "Error! Reference source not found." "" {ref created}} and similarly for the ref approved field. This compares the result of the ref field to the possible error message; if they're equal, the result of the if field is an empty string, otherwise it's the value of the ref field. |
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"ODog Trying NewTricks" wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. |
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"ODog Trying NewTricks" wrote: I inserted an ask statement with a switch to default to blank if no answer is given, then I used the REF and again used a switch to default to blank if no source is found. I thought this would work, but it doesn't. The program still returns !Error. Reference Source Not Found. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can reference a blank (instead of the previous response) if no response is given? code: {ask created "Enter Date Created." \d ""}{ref created \d ""} {ask approved "Enter Date Approved." \d ""}{ref approved \d "") results: Created on: April 4, 2007 Approved on: Error! Reference source not found. |
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