Inserting Signature Boxes

[Samuel]

Hi there,

I just wondered if there was a way of inserting a number of signature boxes
at the bottom of a letter for a mail merge we are doing?

Idealy I would like to use an input box to ask how many are required and
depending on the answer (anywhere from 2 to 5) I want it to insert this
number of "Signed................. Date................ Print
Name.............." etc. I have tried this numerous ways but im afraid my
lack of knowledge/skills has got the better of me.

Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks very much in advance,

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you had a field in your data source named Signatures that contained the
number of signatures required for each record, you could use the following
field construction in the mail merge main document

{ IF { MERGEFIELD "Signatures" } = 5 "Signed.................
Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name.............." { IF
{ MERGEFIELD "Signatures" } = 4 "Signed.................
Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name.............." { IF
{ MERGEFIELD "Signatures" } = 3 "Signed.................
Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print
Name..............[Enter]" "Signed................. Date................
Print Name..............[Enter]

Signed................. Date................ Print
Name..............[Enter]" } } }

You use Ctrl+F9 to insert each pair of field delimiters { } and wherever
[Enter] appears in the above field construction, you would press the Enter
key.


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Doug Robbins - Word MVP