[Graham]

How do I determine the length (or number of characters) of a field?

I want to use something like:

{ IF { = LENGTH( { long_description } ) } 40
{ short_description } { long_description } }

except that there doesn't seem to be a LENGTH function.

Or I want to be able to use { NUMCHARS } for a small part of text, not the
complete document.

Is there a function? Or a workaround?

Thanks

[macropod]

Hi Graham,

Try:
{IF{long_description}= "?????????????????????????????????????????*"
{long_description} {short_description}}

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Graham" wrote in message
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| How do I determine the length (or number of characters) of a field?
|
| I want to use something like:
|
| { IF { = LENGTH( { long_description } ) } 40
| { short_description } { long_description } }
|
| except that there doesn't seem to be a LENGTH function.
|
| Or I want to be able to use { NUMCHARS } for a small part of text, not the
| complete document.
|
| Is there a function? Or a workaround?
|
| Thanks

[Graham]

Thanks. Nice workaround.


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Graham,

Try:
{IF{long_description}= "?????????????????????????????????????????*"
{long_description} {short_description}}

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Graham" wrote in message
...
| How do I determine the length (or number of characters) of a field?
|
| I want to use something like:
|
| { IF { = LENGTH( { long_description } ) } 40
| { short_description } { long_description } }
|
| except that there doesn't seem to be a LENGTH function.
|
| Or I want to be able to use { NUMCHARS } for a small part of text, not the
| complete document.
|
| Is there a function? Or a workaround?
|
| Thanks

[Graham]

And it works well. 41 question marks and an asterisk.
I'm glad I'm not checking a paragraph length.

I put short_description before long_description so it uses the short
description if the long description is too long for my table cell.

Thanks a lot.



"Graham" wrote:

Thanks. Nice workaround.


"macropod" wrote:

Hi Graham,

Try:
{IF{long_description}= "?????????????????????????????????????????*"
{long_description} {short_description}}

Cheers

--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Graham" wrote in message
...
| How do I determine the length (or number of characters) of a field?
|
| I want to use something like:
|
| { IF { = LENGTH( { long_description } ) } 40
| { short_description } { long_description } }
|
| except that there doesn't seem to be a LENGTH function.
|
| Or I want to be able to use { NUMCHARS } for a small part of text, not the
| complete document.
|
| Is there a function? Or a workaround?
|
| Thanks