Hi there,
I want to insert a picture in the footer of the LAST page of a page section. I found a way to do it by using IF, PAGE AND SECTIONPAGES
This parsing works ok in the word template:

{IF {PAGE} = {SECTIONPAGES} {INCLUDEPICTURE "d:\\signature.jpg"\* MERGEFORMATINET}}

This works ok in the template, the signature is printed only in the last page of the section ( see attachment for example) But when I do a mail merge using the includepicture dissappears and only Page number and total Page section is populated. ( I populated Page number and Page section just to check that the pages were being numered correctly and they are)



Any ideas of why this happen? I am puzzled

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You cannot use an IF field this way in a mailmerge. That's because the first thing that happens when the merge executes is that the IF field gets evaluated and converted to its result. What you can use instead is a numeric picture switch in a formula field!

Try:
{={SECTIONPAGES}-{PAGE} \# ";;'{INCLUDEPICTURE "d:\\signature.jpg"}'"}

Note: you probably don't need the '\* MERGEFORMATINET' switch.

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Paul Edstein
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thanks for the reply. I tried and the image still is not being populated in the mail merge, but now does not work in the template either. I am looking for more information about numeric picture switch ( first time ever that I heard about that option).

The field won't 'work' in your mailmerge main document, because it can't be evaluated properly; it can only be evaluated properly when the merge executes.

Note too that you need to include the two single quote characters either side of the INCLUDETEXT field.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

YESSS , I was missing the single quotes. Thanks a lottt for your help. A pavlona for you