WD: Conditional MERGEFIELD Lost When Converted to MacWord (165635)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
Microsoft Word for Windows 95
Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a

This article was previously published under Q165635

SYMPTOMS

When you save a mail merge main document containing conditional MERGEFIELD statements as a Word for the Macintosh 4.0 or 5.x document, the information in the conditional MERGEFIELD statement is lost.

WORKAROUND

Re-create the conditional MERGEFIELD statement after you open the mail merge main document in Word.

NOTE: You may need to reattach the data document when you open the mail merge main document.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

The conversion process does not correctly handle the conditional MERGEFIELD statement. For example, if the statement in Word for Windows is

{IF {MERGEFIELD LastName}="Jones" "yes" "no"}

the same statement after opening the converted document in Word for the Macintosh 5.1 would appear as:

<<IF=>><<ENDIF>>

When you reopen the converted document back into Word, the conditional MERGEFIELD statement shows as:

Word 7.0, Word 97

{IF= "" ""}

Word 6.0

{ MERGEFIELD LastName }=Jonesyesno

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	8/17/2005
Keywords:	kbbug kbfield kbinterop kbmerge KB165635