Re: Word field Skip IF problem

Hi Michelle,

Unfortunately, I suspect I'm not quite getting the picture of exactly what
you need.

You can certainly make a field that SKIPs with multiple criteria, it's more
a question of what those criteria need to be. however, I'm not sure you're
going to be able to get multiple documents out of it, at least not in a
single merge.

If you want to use the same document multipe times with different SKIPIF
criteria, you might be able for example to input the name of the department
you want to skip in an ASK field (say

{ ASK thingtoskip }

then use { SKIPIF { MERGEFIELD To } = { REF thingtoskip } }

(or whatever).

I wonder whether in some cases you would be better off using the Mail Merge
Recipients dialog box (Word 2002, 2003 - it's on one of the buttons on the
Mail merge toolbar which you can display using Tools|Customize) to select
the records you want to merge.

Anyway, I may not be able to reply again for a while so if you post again in
this thread and do not see a reply for a few days, I'd post again in a new
thread.

Peter Jamieson

"Michelle Hanan" <Michelle.Hanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Basically I have a work*** that has different headings: "to" "planner"
"date completed" etc. These are also the mergefields in my word docs. So
if under the heading To the department is not Ecology then it skips it
until it finds the correct department name. Which is fine for all of the
rest of my documents except Miscellaneous.doc. This document is used for
several different departments. I'm not sure how I can put a mergefield in
that has more than one document name. . This way it pulls all of the names
off the work*** and makes different documents for each one. I hope this
makes more sense. It's a lil hard to explain.
"Peter Jamieson" <pjj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On the face of it, you should be able to use one field after another,
e.g.

{ SKIP IF {MERGEFIELD To }<>"Department of Ecology"
}{ SKIP IF {MERGEFIELD To }<>"Department B"
}

However, I am not completely sure what you are actually doing here:
Surely if you SKIP when the "To" is /not/ "Department of Ecology" then
e.g. you want to SKIP if it /is/ "Department B" - adding extra "not
equal" conditions does not seem to make sense.

If you could spell out what your merge is trying to achieve, maybe we
could suggest a different approach (and maybe not!)

Peter Jamieson



"Michelle Hanan" <Michelle.Hanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a mergefield that uses word field "Skip if".
It basically says Skip record if "mergefield to" does not equal that
documents name. The problem is that I have a document that is considered
miscellaneous and is used for about 20 different records. Is there a way
to put in all of these names in the word field "skip if"? Or am I going
to have to make 20 different documents?
This is what it looks like with one record.
{ SKIP IF {MERGEFIELD To }<>"Department of Ecology"}
Any suggestions?? Thanks!







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