I rarely have to delve into the pain that is MS Word Field Codes, and whenever I do, I end up pulling my hair out.

I need to have show a value ONLY if a bookmark is NOT empty.

I tried using a COMPARE, but it only seems to work if I specify the EXACT value (e.g. "Test"). If I compare it to an empty string (""), it doesn't work. The following code:

{COMPARE{REF TestBookmark} = "Test"}

gives me a result of 1 if 'TestBookmark' does equal "Test". But if I try to use the following:

{COMPARE{REF TestBookmark} = ""}

I always get a 0 result.

Is there any way to tell if a Bookmark is empty?



What I'm looking for is something like this:

{IF{={COMPARE{REF TestBookmark} = ""} > 0} "Bookmark Is Empty" "Bookmark Is NOT Empty"}