Mail merge source document includes field WRECID, which contains either a ten-digit string or nothing.
If data exists in the field, I want to show it; If the field is empty, I want an underline (specified by 20 underscore characters in the literal).
{ IF { MERGEFIELD WRECID } = "" "____________________" "{ MERGEFIELD WRECID }" } results in the literal "MERGEFIELD" instead of either the value in the field or an underline.
If I remove the spaces before "MERGEFIELD" & after "WRECID" in the condition:
{ IF {MERGEFIELD WRECID} = "" "____________________" "{MERGEFIELD WRECID}" } results in the literal "WRECID}" in all cases.
I've tried various other configurations but I never get what I'm looking for.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
IGNORANCE UPDATE!!! - It turns out that the connection with the source data file was broken, so I reinstituted that & tried again. Sorry, but I'm quite the novice at this.
The result is that I do get the underline for records with no value in the WRECID field but I still get a literal, rather than data, for records with data in the field.
How can I accomplish my goal?
