Hi all!
I've recently been teaching myself how to use basic merge fields in a professional template, and I've hit a bit of a wall when it comes to nested IF statements. I haven't seen anyone talk about this so I thought id put it out there.

Each mergefield has a variable that needs to be added together at the end, so assuming they are all 'true', the total output should be 328. Obviously it doesn't work, but this is the only method of doing this I can think of; then again I'm pretty new to this so any help is highly appreciated!

I think you need to add calculation fields into this.
= (Formula) field - Office Support
What is it you are trying to accomplish?

Thank you so much for your reply! Ill look through the attached link now.
But I had the intention of creating a function that could add all of the results together if the merge fields were present/correct (I work in legal and would want to automate this as opposed to having to manually type it).

I will also continue to look through Paul Edstein's field math document and if I find a solution Ill make sure to post it on here.

This can be automated.

An IF Field contains truetext and falsetext parts. It does not contain subtraction or addition except as part of the test, that would be part of the calculation field.
A calculation field can contain merge fields that are in IF Fields.
Dealing with Fields in Microsoft Word

Hi Charles,
Unfortunately I don't think it is doable then, as this statement is dependent on whether or not the conditional statement can be involved.

For more context, each mergefield is linked to a part of the database we use, such as sourcing whether or not the client has an attorney, and if yes, the charge will be £82, so on and so forth. The charges will then supposedly be added together if they appear as true. Can this work as an if statement? Or do I have to stick with a Formula.

I've not really gotten too far with this

It can work with If fields, yes.
{ = { If { MergeField HasAttorney } = "True" "£82" "0" } + { If { MergeField Day } >= 3 "2" "0" } }
This assigns a given amount to be included in the addition given passing a test. If the condition is not met you could have nothing or have a 0.

Thank you Charles it works

The finished result of what I'm going to use is below, and looking at it now I feel a bit silly its so straightforward.

The result for the most part either being 82 or 164 depending on the database client.

Thank you again!