Microsoft KB Archive/214164

= WD2000: Conditional MERGEFIELD Lost When Converted to MacWord =

Article ID: 214164

Article Last Modified on 12/6/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q214164





SYMPTOMS
When you save a mail merge main document as a Word for the Macintosh 4.0 or 5.x document, and the document contains conditional MERGEFIELD statements, the information in the conditional MERGEFIELD statement is lost and is replaced by a {Private} field.



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 Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
The conversion process does not correctly handle the conditional MERGEFIELD statement. For example, if the statement in Word 2000 is  {IF {MERGEFIELD LastName}="Jones" "yes" "no"} the same statement after opening the converted document in Word 5.1 for the Macintosh appears as: <>{Private}<> When you reopen the converted document in Word 2000, the conditional MERGEFIELD statement appears as: {IF={Private} "" ""}

Additional query words: conditional print constructs field 8.0 8.00

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix kbmerge kbfield KB214164

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