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Every time I attempt to add a conditional statement to my mergefield that I have placed inside a text box, I get an error saying:
"You cannot include DATA, NEXT, NEXTIF, or SKIPIF fields in comments, headers, footers, footnotes or endnotes."
It gives me this error no matter what rule I apply to the mergefield. Is a text box considered any of those conditions?
I need to apply a NEXTIF or IF,THEN,ELSE to a mergefield, otherwise there will be a LOT of deleting. I use the text box as a way to show the balance due.
I am guessing at the type of document that you are creating, but it may be that you could do what you want with the Many to One facility on
the MergeTools – 20130627 Add-in that I created that you can download from the following page of my Windows Live SkyDrive:
When you have done that, the tab shown below will be added to the Ribbon:
One thing to note is that the field names in your data source must contain only alphanumeric characters (No @,#,$,%,&,(,),
etc) and the field names must not start with a numeric character (0-9).
Also download the Using the Many to One Facility document that describes how to use that facility.
Hope this helps, Doug Robbins - MVP Office Apps & Services (Word) dougrobbinsmvp@gmail.com It's time to replace ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’ with ‘Excellence, Opportunity & Civility’ - V Ramaswamy
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