[Peter Jamieson]

If I have understood your requirement correctly, I think what you have to do
is abandon Word's built-in list numbering and use fields to generate the
numbers. There are a few obvious field types you could try (e.g. { SEQ },
{ AUTONUM } and { LISTNUM }, but IME itt's difficult to get any of them to
work how you want - e.g. Word processes { SEQ } inside an IF field "true"
result even when it ends up inserting the "false" result and vice versa, so
numbering after the IF goes haywire.

Try the following which seems to work in a simple example he

{ SET S 1 }{ S } This should be bullet 1
{ SET S {=S+1 } }{ S } This should be bullet 2
{ IF {MERGEFIELD EntityType } = "Consultant"
"{ SET S {=S+1 } }{ S } If present, this should be bullet 3
" "" }{ SET S {=S+1 } }{ S } This could be bullet 3 or 4

Peter Jamieson

"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
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Will have to look again for numbered lists, sorry. (FWIW I never found an
approach that worked before, but that doesn't mean there is no workable
approach)

Peter Jamieson

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On Mar 29, 11:33 am, "Peter Jamieson"
wrote:
Include paragraph marks in the result texts, e.g. if you have

{ IF X = Y "abc" "def" }

and you want

ab
c

if X = Y, put the insertion point after "ab" in the field and press
Enter so
you have

{ IF X = Y "ab
c "def" }

(i.e. it's probably more obvious than you realised :-) ) However,
whether
that will help solve your problem I cannot tell.

Yeah, sadly, that doesn't seem to work for me. The new paragraphs are
evident when in "View Field Code" mode, but they show up in white, and
don't appear to be included within the quotes holding the conditional
text.

Here's what I'm trying to do with lists:

- list item number 1. this applies to all documents blah blah blah...
- list item number 2. this applies to all documents blah blah blah...
{ IF {MERGEFIELD EntityType } = "Consultant" "- list item number 3.
this applies to documents pertaining to consultants blah blah blah..."
"" }
- list item number 4. this applies to all documents blah blah blah...

and so on and so forth. According to the online help, text formatting
isn't passed along with the text inside the "IF" statement. Evidently,
this includes list element formatting. The problem is, if I leave the
list item definition in the main document, it appears (as a blank)
even when the "IF" is false.

As I mentioned before, I'm totally open to other ways of approaching
this problem. Thanks again...