Division Calculations in MERGEFIELDS

[PINDWALA]

Hi,

Question is...

I got two MERGEFIELDS in word - both will produce numeric
data

MERGEFIELD dp
MERGEFIELD dc

ive inserted them both and inserted them as bookmarks and
called them

dpbk, and dcbk respectively

i want to do a mathematical equation in word which will
output dcbk divided by dpbk

{= dcbk/dpbk } is not working as it says !zero divide

i know my function is right cos when i do {= dcbk/2 } that
comes out fine

............

so my question is - is there any way of dividing one
bookmark by another without word thinking the denominator
is zero...or is there any way around this?

Thanks

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Although some ofWord Help suggests you ought to be able to use the bookmark
names directly in {=} and {IF} fields, I usually put the whole field in as
it seems to be a bit more reliable. So have you tried using the MERGEFIELD
fields directly, e.g.

{ ={ MERGEFIELD dp }/{ MERGEFIELD dc } }

or perhaps

{ ={ dpbk }/{ dcbk } }

perhaps also nested inside an IF if there is any possibility that dcbk will
be small enough to produce overflow or division by 0?

 

[PINDWALA]

Thanks for your reply...but what word doesn't like is
dividing one mergefield (or bookmark) by another in case
the denominator mergefield is 0

Any idea?