Adding fields in mail merge

[Mark]

I've tried adding fields using =SUM() and =(mergefield1+
mergefied2). It seems to work in office 2000 but does not
work in Office 2002.

My code looks like this.

{ =SUM({MERGEFIELD "processing_fee"},
{MERGEFIELD "application_fee"}) }

The result of this in the merged document is:

{=SUM(100, 50)}

I've also tried adding the fields:

{=({MERGEFIELD "processing_fee"}+
{MERGEFIELD "application_fee"})}

The result of this in the merged document is:

{= 100+ 50)}

I was expecting 150 as the result. If you can please tell
me what I'm missing?

 

[Graham Mayor]

What you are missing is one of two things
1, You have entered the field boundariess from the keyboard rather using
CTRL+F9
or
2. You need to toggle the resulting field to display the result - ALT+F9
or maybe both

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