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I am trying to merge from Excel into Word. One of the columns contains date
format data which is generated by a forumal. The same column also contains
some records which return "N/A" and is in text format, manually imputted.

The merge instruction within Word is:

MERGEFIELD First_Board_T \@"YY"

However this will not recognise "N/A" and merges this entry as a date.

How can I tell word to migrate the exact data contained within the column?

Grateful for your assistance.

Loz
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Graham Mayor
 
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You will need a conditional field
{IF {MERGEFIELD First_Board_T} "N/A" "{MERGEFIELD First_Board_T \@
"YY"}" "N/A"}

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Loz wrote:
I am trying to merge from Excel into Word. One of the columns
contains date format data which is generated by a forumal. The same
column also contains some records which return "N/A" and is in text
format, manually imputted.

The merge instruction within Word is:

MERGEFIELD First_Board_T \@"YY"

However this will not recognise "N/A" and merges this entry as a date.

How can I tell word to migrate the exact data contained within the
column?

Grateful for your assistance.

Loz



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