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How to write {} statments with IF MAILMERGE?
Im a newb here, and trying to write a mailmerge that pulls data from an excel file. I have it working, but I get blanks in my letter where the recipient isnt making that purchase. for example right now I have lots of items that dont always get filled because they are blank in my database: Hello thanks for your order: {MERGEFIELD "Item1"} {MERGEFIELD "Item2"} {MERGEFIELD "Item3"} Your order will be shipped out ASAP. If I have a customer with just Item1 purchase, then there is a 2 blank lines before the "Your order..." line starts. I understand that I need an IF statment to get rid of the gap but I dont know how to write it. I see that I have to hit control f9, but when I do that after my current MERGEFIELD, I get too many of the {} symbols. My question is simply trying to understand how to use the control F9 and when to do it, so that I have the right amount of symbols. The code should look like: {MERGEFIELD "Item1"}{ }{IF {MERGEFIELD "Item1"} "" etc etc But again, I cant get the right amount of { } or I get too many. Am i missing a fundamental way in editing a MERGEFIELD that is already in my document? Im using Word 2007 Thanks! -- lbmmoh |
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