I am stuck trying to get a mailmerge template numbering some inserted paragraphs successfully
I want this kind of result, where there is a variable number of paragraphs in part of the merged document: (I've used a fixed font here just to do make the indenting appear reliably):
This is a list:
i) Paragraph conditionally inserted from another file
ii) Another paragraph conditionally inserted from another file
and this example is long enough to wrap around to illustrate
desired first line vs hanging indent
iii) And a third para, and so on
I have a limited range of paragraphs to pick from, so I have set up a series of conditional mergefield / includetexts, like this sort of thing:
{ IF {MERGEFIELD} para1 = "Y" "{ INCLUDETEXT c:\\boilerplate.docx bookmark1 }<carriagereturn>
" ""}{ IF {MERGEFIELD} para2 = "Y" "{ INCLUDETEXT c:\\boilerplate.docx bookmark2 }<carriagereturn>
" ""}{ IF {MERGEFIELD} para3 = "Y" "{ INCLUDETEXT c:\\boilerplate.docx bookmark3 }<carriagereturn>
" ""}
My problem is how to do this, and achieve consecutive roman numbering against each item in the merged document.
I have tried and failed with:
a numbered list format in the template;
a numbered list format in the boilerplate source doc;
(also changing the bookmarks so they include or exclude a carriage return at the end of each boilerplate paragraph);
using { SEQ } to do the numbering (it appeared to fail by doing its numbering before the merge operation? i.e. if para1 wasn't included the first one would come out numbered (ii));
using { LISTNUM } (I don't think it usually appeared on the merged doc);
..so I have resorted to SETting "mynum" and incrementing & printing it all conditionally.
That all works perfectly, as shown below, except now the line indenting doesn't work! This is what I am seeing in the merged document, and no matter how I select those lines and clear or reapply formatting, I cannot get the first line - vs - hanging indent to work properly. The first line is always starting on the hanging indent position. I have verified there's no hidden spaces or extra characters or tabs, this is very weird:
This is a list:
i) Paragraph conditionally inserted from another file
ii) Another paragraph conditionally inserted from another
file and this example is long enough to wrap around to
illustrate first line indent
iii) And a third, and so on
If anyone can help, either with my overall approach, or revisiting some of the options I've tried & abandoned, or with my final indent problem, I'd greatly appreciate it!
