literal text to mail merge

[jt]

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.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Is the text in the data source? What is the data source? What version of
Word?

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[jt]

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

 

[what4893]

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"?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

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