Mail merge for married contacts with different last names
- From: bsharp <bsharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:49:01 -0700
I am in Word 2007 and trying to create a letter from my Outlook contacts.
Nearly all my clients are either married, or have a partner, but I only
create one contact record in Outlook for them (having two contact records
isn't an option for me). Sometimes they have different last names, which
creates problems when writing letters.
I am using BCM, and I have created two user-defined fields. One for
spouse/partner first name, the other for spouse/partner last name.
I am using if then statements in the mail merge, and am coming very close to
making this work. I can get the salutation to work no problem, it only brings
in the 2nd name if there is one there, and adds an " and " between them.
Where I am having trouble is in creating the envelope. For example, if my
clients are Bob Smith and Sarah Jones, I want the envelope to read, "Bob
Smith and Karen Jones."
Here is what I have come up with below. It came very close once, but I've
got something in the wrong spot somewhere, and as I try to "fix" it I'm
making it worse. I know some of the quotes are out of place somewhere.
{if {mergefield "spousepartner_last_name"}="" {mergefield
"first_name"}{if{mergefield "spousepartner_first_name"}="" {mergefield
"last_name"} and "{mergefield "spousepartner_first_name"}{mergefield
"spousepartner_last_name"}"}}
.
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