Thank you! Fabulous information!
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > Use either
>
> { IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" <> "" "{ QUOTE 34 }Summary{ QUOTE 34 }" }
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> or if you need a lot of them it might be clearer to use something like
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> { SET q { QUOTE 34 } }
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> at the beginning of the document then use { q } where you need the qutoe
> mark, e.g.
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> { IF "{ MERGEFIELD Details }" <> "" "{ q }Summary{ q }" }
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> (All the {} have to be the special field braces that you can insert using
> ctrl-F9 - you cna't just type them on the keyboard.)
>
> Peter Jamieson
> "hbear" <hbear[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0936C7FB-D1AB-4B16-A171-EDE155E55D4C[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > I'm creating a bibliography through a merge and would like to insert
> > quotation marks around one field if another field contains text. The
> > criteria is simple: if "Details" is not blank, insert """ (that's a single
> > quotation mark) in front of "Summary", with a similar statement at the end
> > of
> > "Summary". I've tried both the IF, Then, Else... box and manually
> > inserting
> > the statement myself. Neither is working. I'm not getting quotation
> > marks
> > under any circumstances. I'm guessing it's some confusion surrounding
> > having
> > three quotation marks in a row ("""). What's the workaround for this?
> > Adding spaces doesn't help (of course).
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