[Shannon Haley]

I googled this issue and it took some piecing together to figure it out. This method worked for me (note that the field codes will go away)

Ctrl + A (select all text)

Ctrl + Shift + A (removes the field codes without removing the imported text)

Originally Posted by macropod

Hi Sasquatch,

Are you actually running the mailmerge, or just previewing it from the master? Also, were *all* the braces (ie '{ }') created by
Ctrl-F9, or did you simply type them? If its the latter for any of them, the fields concerned won't work

Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Sasquatch" wrote in message ...
| Maybe I didn't explain this well enough...
|
| They vanish because you'd normally want the field results to be
| printed, not the field codes. If you want to print the field code,
| check the 'field codes' option under Tools|Options|Print.
|
| I don't want to see the field codes, it's the field results I'm after. The
| problem is that when the document opens the necessary field results are
| visible BUT when I preview or print the document then nothing shows for those
| fields results...as if they don't exist.
|
| Here is an example of the IF statements I'm using:
|
| { IF {MergeField Class1Amt } 0 "A. { MergeField Class1Text }" "" }
| { IF {MergeField Class2Amt } 0 "B. { MergeField Class2Text }" "" }
| etc...
| { IF {MergeField Class7Amt } 0 "G. { MergeField Class7Text }" "" }
|
| So, for instance, if Class1Amt and Class2Amt are both greater than 0 and the
| other ClassAmts equal 0 then it will show:
| =============
| A. some text...
| B. some text...
| =============
| and the other 5 classes stay hidden (which is exactly what I want) BUT when
| the document previews or prints all 7 classes are hidden, as if all the
| ClassAmts = 0.
|
| I played around with the statements and found that if I remove the {
| MergeField Class#Text } from the "True" results then when I previewed/printed
| the document it would in fact show the results.
| =============
| A.
| B.
| =============
|
| SO, having said all that, why is it that once the document previews/prints
| the IF statements won't print these sentences?