[Graham]

Thanks. Nice workaround.


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Graham,

Try:
{IF{long_description}= "?????????????????????????????????????????*"
{long_description} {short_description}}

Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Graham" wrote in message
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| How do I determine the length (or number of characters) of a field?
|
| I want to use something like:
|
| { IF { = LENGTH( { long_description } ) } 40
| { short_description } { long_description } }
|
| except that there doesn't seem to be a LENGTH function.
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| Or I want to be able to use { NUMCHARS } for a small part of text, not the
| complete document.
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| Is there a function? Or a workaround?
|
| Thanks