Microsoft KB Archive/197827

= WD97: SET Fields Within IF Field Evaluate Incorrectly =

Article ID: 197827

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q197827





SYMPTOMS
When you use an IF field to determine how to set a bookmark, and you use SET fields inside the IF field, the bookmark being set always evaluates as the second SET statement.

For example, these statements {ask gender "What is the person's gender?"} --> {if gender = f {set pronoun she}{set pronoun he}} {ref pronoun} always show the bookmark "pronoun" as "he". This is because Word evaluates fields from the inside out and from left to right. It evaluates the first SET statement, and the bookmark "pronoun" is set to "she". It then evaluates the next SET field, and the bookmark "pronoun" is reset to "he". When the IF instruction is carried out, both the true bookmark and the false bookmark are "he".



WORKAROUND
The correct way to use these fields together is to put the IF field inside the SET field, as in the following example: {ask gender "What is the person's gender?"} --> {set pronoun {if gender = f "she" "he"}} {ref pronoun}

Additional query words: winword2 define assign wrong value incorrect

Keywords: kbfield kbprb KB197827

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