WD2000: Conditional MERGEFIELD Lost When Converted to MacWord (214164)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

This article was previously published under Q214164

SYMPTOMS

When you save a mail merge main document as a Word for the Macintosh 4.0 or 5.x document, and the document contains conditional MERGEFIELD statements, the information in the conditional MERGEFIELD statement is lost and is replaced by a {Private} field.

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 2000 is

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

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

   <<IF=>>{Private}<<ENDIF>>

When you reopen the converted document in Word 2000, the conditional MERGEFIELD statement appears as:

      {IF={Private} "" ""}

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	12/6/2000
Keywords:	kbbug kbfield kbmerge KB214164