quotation marks in word field text set from VB.NET app

[Vladimir Kryachko]

Hello,

I need to output a text in a Word document field. The document created from
a template and filled in my VB.NET application. All works well unless the
text contains a quotation mark ("), which delimits the text to output.
If I insert a backslash character immediately before the quotation marks,
this avoids from delimiting the text, but the inserted backslash characters
are displayed in MS Word document too.

I have the following VB.NET code for this:

doc.Fields.Add(doc.Range(0, 0), 6, str)

and, for instance, str is value "FirstName "Alex\"ander""

In this case the field will be set to Alex\"ander.

How can I output quotation marks in a field?

Thanks

 

[Chad DeMeyer]

Vladimir,

You might try

str = "FirstName ""Alex""ander""

VB/VBA interpret the two consecutive quotation marks as one quotation mark
within the string.

Regards,
Chad

 

[Vladimir Kryachko]

The clue is at http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm, chapter
"Insert quotation marks in a conditional merge field result".

The trick is to use a REF fiels to {SET q "\""} bookmark in the place you
need to insert a quotation mark, for instance {SET Name "Name { q }Nik{ q }"}