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Old 03-20-2018, 11:37 AM
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I've got a bulleted list and I want to add a few additional bullets if the field is not empty within a mail merge. If I place the bullets in and add the mail merge fields, if the fields are empty that get merged in, the bullets are still there with no data.

I can manually enter a bullet with alt-0149 after \b in the field code but the bullet is small and doesn't look clean at all or match the other bullets in the list.

Also, after the first bullet, I need 3 additional bullets that are indented.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
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Old 03-22-2018, 12:35 AM
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If you are using an automatic bulleted style, put the conditional field at the end of the previous bulleted line, after the paragraph break e.g.

end of bulleted line¶
{ IF { MERGEFIELD fieldname } <> "" then "¶
{ MERGEFIELD fieldname }" }¶
Next bulleted line .....¶

where ¶ indicated a paragraph break entered from the keyboard by pressing the enter key. Then format the paragraph break at the end of the bulleted line before the conditional field as hidden.
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Old 03-27-2018, 10:02 AM
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Graham, thanks for the reply.

However, this doesn't seem to work for me. When I have my IF statement and hit Enter within quotes, the bullet for that line goes away.

• end of bulleted list { IF { MERGEFIELD fieldname } = "" "" "¶"
(once I hit ¶ at the end of this statement, the • before "end of bulleted list" disappears)

also, I have the IF statement on this line opposed to the next because if I start it on the next line, then the bulleted list will have an empty bullet at the end if the field is blank.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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Old 03-27-2018, 01:39 PM
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Although the bullets may disappear from the field coding, properly implemented they will re-appear when the merge is executed.
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Hey Paul, maybe I'm missing something?

After writing in the code for these lines I only get a bullet on the very last line. If I have separate statements, I get bullets for each line but they don't go away if the fields are blank.
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The implementation is perhaps counter-intuitive. What you need to do is to attach the field code for the conditional bulleted paragraph to the preceding paragraph:

Quote:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa.{IF{MERGEFIELD Bullet1}<> "" "
Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna."}
• Nunc viverra imperdiet enim.¶
• Fusce est.¶
• Vivamus a tellus.¶
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Mauris et orci.¶
with the paragraph break within the mergefield (i.e. ) formatted as per the paragraph's own Style and the one following the mergefield (i.e. ) formatted with the bullet.
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Hello there. I am also facing pretty much the same situation as the original poster. I was unable to comprehend what are you implying by your last comment. Please post an elaborate explanation if possible.
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