If you want, you can delete all the marks except the ones around your conditional text. Once you delete the superfluous quotation marks, you can insert the merge field you want to use in the comparison. Figure D shows how the IF field will look when you finish. After you enter the Gift96 merge field, the IF field is complete. If the entry is the same in both fields or if the entry in Gift97 is smaller, Word won't include the conditional text for that record.
Word displays the postscript.
As you might guess, when you compare fields in an IF field, the fields must contain the same type of entries. In other words, both fields must contain either text or values. Is Blank and Is Not Blank. Although IF instructions give you a great deal of control over the information that appears in your merge documents, Word offers a number of additional tools for customizing text. All rights reserved.