Peter - you are a genius! I haven't delved that much into programming in Word
so I was not aware of that. Now I'm going to push my luck - some of the zip
codes that come in already have the +4 - using the syntax below, it's
actually replacing the imported +4 zip with 4 zeroes. How could I arrange
this to look at the +4, if it's there leave it, but if it's not add the
zeroes. This all started because of the leading zeroes in my zip code being
stripped!

Spring

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

The main thing is that all the {} have to be the special field braces that
you can insert using ctrl-F9. The ordinary ones on the keyboard do not work.

Peter Jamieson

"Spring Velazquez, Widener University" Spring Velazquez, Widener
wrote in message
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Our academic software has a program that allows us to run letters using a
macro program (WINTEG.WORD) between the software and Word. One of the
problems is that the leading "0" is lost during the process. Have visited
www.gmayor.com for solutions. Using {MERGEFIELD Zip\# "00000"} doesn't
work
when there are 9 digits in the zip code. I have tried to use the {IF
{MERGEFIELD...} to add trailing zeroes to the 5 digit field suggestion on
the
site also. Once I update the field though, all I get is MERGEFIELD rather
than LrZip and the data doesn't merge. Could this be a syntax issue?

My field is as follows { IF { MERGEFIELD LrZip } "9999" "{ MERGEFIELD
LrZip\# "00000'-'0000"}""{MERGEFIELD LrZip\# "00000"}-0000" }

Any suggestions?