Did you read Note 1 in the link's Introduction?

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks, yes, I read that, so I knew not to type the curly braces in the Word doc. I also tried not typing them into the Field dialog.

I searched that tome on "wrap" and found something that got me a little further. Under "Basic Mailmerge Maths", #2, it says "press Ctrl-F9 to wrap another field around it, thus { «Price» }".

I tried putting in a Date field, selecting it, and pressing Ctrl+F9. It put the curly braces around it. Woo-hoo! However, I don't know where to go from there to wrap a Quote field around it. If I select it, right-click and try to edit it, the "Edit Field" choice is grayed out. If I select it and choose Insert tab > Text section > Quick Parts > Field, and select Quote, the quote field replaces the Date field.

So... after I've pressed Ctrl+F9 on a Date field so it look like this in the doc....

{ 12/19/2018 }

...where do I go from there to wrap it in a Quote field?


Update:

I tried doing it the other way around, starting with the Quote field and adding the Date field inside it. Here's what happened:

- I added a Quote field, with the text "abc" as a placeholder, and returned that to the doc.
- I selected the new Quote field and pressed Ctrl+F9, which added the curly braces around it. At this point it looked like this:

{ abc }

- I selected the abc text and chose Insert tab > Text section > Quick Parts > Field, and added a Date field, choosing one of the date formatting choices. Returning from the Field dialog to the doc it looked like this:

{ December 19, 2018 }

But when I do the merge, this results in nothing; a blank line.

What am I doing wrong?