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Peter Jamieson Peter Jamieson is offline
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Default Inserting text based on the first character of a field
Try

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield \*Upper }" = "M*" "Dear " "" }{ MERGEFIELD
myfield }

(You can use various types of field instead of { MERGEFIELD myfield }
depending on what you need). All the {} need to be the special field code
braces that you can insert using ctrl-F9.

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Can I ask If...Then...Else to insert the word Dear before any preferred
salutation that starts with 'M'?

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