Word Field Programming

[Help me in Silicon Valley]

Greetings,

I am trying to process the following instruction inside a mail merge:
( The {} may be part of my problem.)

Field 1
={If {Mergefield CC01}<> " " "{Left {CC01},5}" " "}

Field 2
={If {Mergefield CC01}<> " " "{Mid {CC01},6,35" " "}

Thanks for the help. I have been working on this for a couple of days and
the support site within word is not really helping me with this piece.

Cheers,

 

[Doug Robbins]

Such operators (Mid, Left, etc) are not available in Word fields. You will
need to do the manipulation in the datasource itself. Easy if its Excel or
Access. Would require a macro if it was a Word table which means it would
probably be easier to copy it into Excel.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Help me in Silicon Valley"

 

[Please Help]

Doug,

Thanks for the information. I figured that even if there were an answer in
Word. I am more comfortable using Access and should change the datasource,
and not the word document.

Again, thanks for the answer.

Cheers.

 

[Doug Robbins]

Data bases are much better tools to use for data manipulation than word
processors.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP