"Conditional Formatting" of Word Table Cell

[MaxArk]

Excel has a conditional formatting feature that will reformat a cell
when a particular condition is met.

Is it possible to reformat a Word table cell when a condition is met,
similar to Excel's feature? I have a mail merge field placed in a table
cell, for which if it equals NO, the cell becomes shaded, otherwise it
is normal.

Jenn

 

[Jay Freedman]

Excel has a conditional formatting feature that will reformat a cell
when a particular condition is met.

Is it possible to reformat a Word table cell when a condition is met,
similar to Excel's feature? I have a mail merge field placed in a table
cell, for which if it equals NO, the cell becomes shaded, otherwise it
is normal.

Jenn

There isn't any _simple_ way like Excel's conditional formatting. There is a
way, using VBA programming. Look at this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...eff92033546a?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#50b6eff92033546a

 

[macropod]

Hi MaxArk,

There's no Word equivalent of Excel's conditional formatting. However, you can control the formatting of the text, including its
foreground and background colouring. To see how to do this and perform a wide range of calculations in Word, check out my Word Field
Maths 'tutorial', at:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showthreaded.pl?Number=365442
or
http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm#Third_party
In particular, look at the item titled 'Formatting Numeric Field Results'.

Cheers