Hi

i have a field that has a formula in excel for mail merge . It has worked all along and now all of a sudden it doesn't work. We have 2 cells - one where we put our initials in and the one next to it shows our name and title. Ex:

Field 1 - i type in "sn" field 2 has a formula that shows that sn means my name and title. Now in the document when merging it is showing up as false. I cannot get it corrected. Can someone give suggestions on what i need to do to get it to recognize it again.

Thx

sher

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I have a column that has initials in it and the next column is my if statement ex sb and next column is =if("sn","sherri brooks") and when I go to my ms word document and enter in the field where my full name is the result is "false" can someone help me please

Undoubtedly, your Excel workbook will also be showing FALSE, since the formula leaves the false result undefined. It should be something like:
=IF(A1="sn","sherri brooks","")
In any event, you don't need to use that column in your mailmerge; Word can use field coding to do it's own testing directly. Such a field might be constructed along the lines of:
{IF{MERGEFIELD Initials}= "sn" "sherri brooks"}
or
{IF«Initials»= "sn" "sherri brooks"}
without the need to address the FALSE condition.

Note: The field brace pairs (i.e. '{ }') for the above example are all created in the document itself, via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac or, if you’re using a laptop, you might need to use Ctrl-Fn-F9); you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message. Nor is it practical to add them via any of the standard Word dialogues. Likewise, the chevrons (i.e. '« »') are part of the actual mergefields - which you can insert from the 'Insert Merge Field' dropdown (i.e. you can't type or copy & paste them from this message, either). The spaces represented in the field constructions are all required.

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Paul Edstein
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