Re: make a merge field go to next merge field if prior one is blank?

Assuming that what you mean is that your Spread*** has 3 columns, and in each row, one, two or perhaps even all three of those columns could be blank /and/ it is OK simply to start checking with the first column and move to the next as you say, what you need is something like

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD column1 }" <> "" "{ MERGEFIELD column1 }"
"{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD column2 }" <> "" "{ MERGEFIELD column2 }"
"{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD column3 }" <> "" "{ MERGEFIELD column3 }"
"some other value if all three are blank?" }" }" }

This can all be on one line, but all the {} need to be the special field braces that you can insert using ctrl-F9 - you can't just type them on the keyboard. Everything else is plain text. I include the spaces and quotes partly because that's the way Word usually does it, and partly as a defensive programming strategy, but many people would drop quite a few of them.

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Peter Jamieson
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"M. Funn" <M. Funn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B70D7D24-BA7F-41DE-8774-DA5C00E2C50E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a word document that I am merging with an excel spread***. In the
word document there are three choices for the recipient i woudl like the
merge to go to the next choice if the first one is blank and so on. I have
tried to use the "If then else" field but I am a beginner and have not had
luck with this.

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