Word 2008 vs Word 2007 mail merge features Ed Bloomfield 11/21/2008 5:41:03 PM I am considering converting my law office to the Mac platform but I rely heavily on mail merge in Word 2007 for drafting documents. I currently use a tab delimited text file for my data source as that is the only way Act! will provide data that can then be used with some of Word's fields such as "if". I use the "if" field a lot!! But I cannot find any documentation that such a field exists in Word for Mac (I don't own the 2008 version yet). Can someone help? Many thanks! Ed

Re: Word 2008 vs Word 2007 mail merge features "Graham Mayor" <gmayor[ at ]REMOVETHISmvps.org> 11/22/2008 8:03:42 AM You might do better asking Mac questions in a Mac Word forum, but I would be very surprised if the IF field was not included in the Mac Word version. -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Ed Bloomfield wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am considering converting my law office to the Mac platform but I > rely heavily on mail merge in Word 2007 for drafting documents. I > currently use a tab delimited text file for my data source as that is > the only way Act! will provide data that can then be used with some > of Word's fields such as "if". I use the "if" field a lot!! But I > cannot find any documentation that such a field exists in Word for > Mac (I don't own the 2008 version yet). Can someone help? Many > thanks! Ed

Re: Word 2008 vs Word 2007 mail merge features "Peter Jamieson" <pjj[ at ]KillmapSpjjnet.demon.co.uk> 11/23/2008 5:19:59 PM Mac Word 2008 has most of the same field types as Word 2007, including IF fields, but the documentation of fields in general in the product is at least as bad as the documentation in Word 2007. Word 2008 does not have /all/ the field types in Word 2007 - off the top of my head it lacks ADDRESSBLOCK and GREETINGLINE, but has almost everything else including new Word 2007 ones such as BIBLIOGRAPHY. Peter Jamieson "Ed Bloomfield" <Ed Bloomfield[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6F847EA3-E77C-4147-B8F1-6687244DE0DA[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am considering converting my law office to the Mac platform but I rely > heavily on mail merge in Word 2007 for drafting documents. I currently use > a > tab delimited text file for my data source as that is the only way Act! > will > provide data that can then be used with some of Word's fields such as > "if". I > use the "if" field a lot!! But I cannot find any documentation that such a > field exists in Word for Mac (I don't own the 2008 version yet). Can > someone > help? Many thanks! Ed