WD: Conditional MERGEFIELD Lost When Converted to MacWord

 Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
Article ID: Q165635
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you save a mail merge main document containing conditional MERGEFIELD statements as a Word for the Macintosh 4.0 or 5.x document, the information in the conditional MERGEFIELD statement is lost.

WORKAROUND

Re-create the conditional MERGEFIELD statement after you open the mail merge main document in Word.

NOTE: You may need to reattach the data document when you open the mail merge main document.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Word listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The conversion process does not correctly handle the conditional MERGEFIELD statement. For example, if the statement in Word 97 is 

   {IF {MERGEFIELD LastName}="Jones" "yes" "no"}
the same statement after opening the converted document in Word for the Macintosh 5.1 would appear as: 

   <<IF=>><<ENDIF>>
When you reopen the converted document back into Word, the conditional MERGEFIELD statement shows as: 

   Word 7.0, Word 97
   -----------------

      {IF= "" ""}

   Word 6.0
   --------

      { MERGEFIELD LastName }=Jonesyesno

Additional query words: conditional print constructs field 8.0 8.00
Keywords : kbfield kbmerge macword ntword winword word6 word7 word8 word95 word97 wordnt kbinterop
Version : WINDOWS:6.0,6.0a,6.0c,7.0,7.0a,97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbworkaround

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Last reviewed: February 3, 1998
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