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literal text to mail merge
I need to add literal text (ie: "Best of the Best" to a mail merge. The
quotes are constraints for the mail merge formatting. I can't figure out how to work around this. |
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literal text to mail merge
Is the text in the data source? What is the data source? What version of
Word? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "jt" wrote in message ... I need to add literal text (ie: "Best of the Best" to a mail merge. The quotes are constraints for the mail merge formatting. I can't figure out how to work around this. |
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literal text to mail merge
The text is not in the data source. I'm working in word 2003. For example:
{IF {MERGEFIELD RCPS} "0" "You are the "Best of the Best"" " ". When I attempt to add the quotes to the phrase, it creates conditional text instead of quoted literal. Adding additional " didn't have an effect. jt "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Is the text in the data source? What is the data source? What version of Word? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "jt" wrote in message ... I need to add literal text (ie: "Best of the Best" to a mail merge. The quotes are constraints for the mail merge formatting. I can't figure out how to work around this. |
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literal text to mail merge
Why don't you just do the merge and let Best of the Best come out and
then do a find and replace for Best of the Best and replace it with "Best of the Best"? |
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literal text to mail merge
It would be nice if this was easier, but you can do it using a nested field
{ QUOTE 34 } e.g. { IF { MERGEFIELD RCPS } "0" "You are the { QUOTE 34 }Best of the Best{ QUOTE 34 }" " " } where all the {} are the special field code braces you can insert using ctrl-F9. If you are using them a lot and like to keep things short you can use { SET q { QUOTE 34 } } then { IF { MERGEFIELD RCPS } "0" "You are the { q }Best of the Best{ q }" " " } Peter Jamieson "jt" wrote in message ... The text is not in the data source. I'm working in word 2003. For example: {IF {MERGEFIELD RCPS} "0" "You are the "Best of the Best"" " ". When I attempt to add the quotes to the phrase, it creates conditional text instead of quoted literal. Adding additional " didn't have an effect. jt "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Is the text in the data source? What is the data source? What version of Word? -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "jt" wrote in message ... I need to add literal text (ie: "Best of the Best" to a mail merge. The quotes are constraints for the mail merge formatting. I can't figure out how to work around this. |
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