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Mail Merge Questions... New to Mail Merge and on a Mac
Let me commend Word's "Help" function to you. I know it's possible to do what you ask in your second question. I just did a quick search in the Help area, using "conditional mail merge" as my search term and came up with the following:
I don't know about the check marks (ticks) question... You might be able to save time and energy if you could come up with a text-based alternative. E.g., using a "Y" or "X" to indicate the same thing that you want the checked box to indicate.
Mail merge, though, as you might expect, can handle a lot of tricky things. This "conditional" or "if...then...else" is a fairly basic function. It no doubt will take a bit of fooling around. And it might be a matter, not of removing that Apt # field if blank, but rather of using it if filled. But either way, I know it can be made to work.
This works if you don't have any other fields that needs merging. There is a section in my document that I need to do this on.
As seen on the attached screen shot (high lighted section) I need to be able to remove the row if the <<M_2nd_part_Count>> is equal to or less than 0 but if it is not 0 I need it to stay and then enter the merge data in for <<M_2nd_part_Count>> @ <<M_2nd_part_Rate>>.
It won't except the merge fields in the if-then-else section of the rule..
Is there a way to do this?