What causes field calculation errors in mail merge?

[Shelley78]

Merging a document and I get the following Mail Merge message: A field
calculation error occured in record 1.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I have experienced receiving that error message when using a field
construction such as:

{ IF { REF Check } <> "{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice } "
"{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice }¶
" }{ SET Check "{ MERGEFIELD itemnumber } { MERGEFIELD itemprice }" }

But after clicking on the OK button to dismiss the error message, the merge
executes as required.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Peter Jamieson]

I believe that particular problem occurs when the { SET } field has been
inserted but not actually executed. At that point there is no "Check"
bookmark, so the REF field causes an error. After the { SET } field has been
executed once, the error disappears.

Peter Jamieson

 

[macropod]

Hi Shelley,

What is the field coding that generates the error? If it uses any REF
fields, what's the coding for the source fields too?

Cheers