Duplicate entries

[Joanne]

I am creating a merge template where alot of the blanks
will be filled in with the same information .. ie: Mr. /
he she ... so I would like to create one merge to be
dropped into the letter in all the appropriate spots .. I
have tried FILLIN ... ASK ... REF ...SET However none have
worked I am getting a Error reference not found error ..

What field reference should I be using for the first
occurance and how does this link to the second third etc..
without having to type it in each time?

 

[Charles Kenyon]

If the information is in your data set, I would simply use a merge field. If
not, then I use conditional fields that determine gender-specific words. I
have these fields saved in AutoText and simply insert them in the merge
document as appropriate. For an example of such fields (based on document
properties rather than merge fields) see the gender Add-In at
http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm.

Putting a bookmark around one merge field to duplicate the result elsewhere
is overkill and makes editing a lot more difficult than does simply
duplicating the merge field.

 

[Monika Krug]

I am creating a merge template where alot of the blanks

will be filled in with the same information .. ie: Mr. /
he she ... so I would like to create one merge to be
dropped into the letter in all the appropriate spots .. I
have tried FILLIN ... ASK ... REF ...SET However none have
worked I am getting a Error reference not found error ..

What field reference should I be using for the first
occurance and how does this link to the second third etc..
without having to type it in each time?

Maybe you mean something like this:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD title } = "Mr" { SET pronoun "he" } {
SET pronoun "she" } }
To refer to the bookmark pronoun use { pronoun } or { REF
pronoun }

Greetings,
Monika.