You need
{ ={ MERGEFIELD openingbid }+{ MERGEFIELD increment } }
(i.e. MERGEFIELD not MAILMERGE, and a space after MERGEFIELD)
All the {} need to be the special field braces you can insert using ctrl-F9.
If the field names have spaces in them, e.g. if it is not "openingbid" but
"opening bid", you have to quote them, e.g. { MERGEFIELD "opening bid" }
[Quoted Text] > The next thing I want to do I add together in a cell the result of the new
> field I am calculating above plus the MERGEFIELD increment.
That sounds like
{ ={ MERGEFIELD openingbid }+{ MERGEFIELD increment }+{ MERGEFIELD
increment }}
but I'm not convinced I've understood.
Peter Jamieson
"Bill" <Bill[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B82CB32-BDB2-4B5A-AC62-6BF537960F51[ at ]microsoft.com...
>I have two problems:
>
> I want to add together two merge fields. I am using the insert equation in
> a
> table. The format I am using is:
> {={MAILMERGEopeningbid}+{MAILMERGEincrement}}
> This keeps giving me a syntax error.
>
> The next thing I want to do I add together in a cell the result of the new
> field I am calculating above plus the MERGEFIELD increment.
>
> Can one of you really smart people tell me how to do this?
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