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Subject:Re: Word help... Update From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:50:31 -0700
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> My coworker...went into the merge code and manipulated it so that
> it worked. But she thinks there should be an easier way to do it...
Well, you didn't tell us what she did, so it's hard to know if there's an *easier* way.
I would've suggested an "IF" field, something like this:
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in { MERGEFIELD City }, { MERGEFIELD State }{ IF { MERGEFIELD
Country } = "USA" "" ", { MERGEFIELD Country } }".
...giving you results like these:
...your home in Portland, Oregon.
...your home in Montreal, Quebec, .
...your home in London, England.
...your home in , New South Wales, Australia.
...your home in , , United States.
As you can see, you may have to experiment with exact placement of commas, depending on whether the fields (columns) in the merge data file could be empty.
In the examples above, the second, third, and fourth lines come from records in which the country, state, and city (respectively) are blank.
As an argument for validating the merge data, the fifth line comes from a record with no city, no state, and a different representation of "USA" from the one used in the "IF" field.
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