Merge Field With Underlines

[Steve]

I am doing a mailmerge out of an Access database. One of the fields is
True/False. When the value is True, I would like the mailmerge field to contain
three underlines with a capitol X in the middle. When the value is False, I
would like the mailmerge field to just contain three underlines. How do I setup
the merge field to do this?

Thanks!

Steve

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Use an { IF } field with e.g.

{ IF { MERGEFIELD myfield } = 0 "___" "_X_" }

The precise test you need depends on which method Word is using to connect
to Access.

If it's DDE (the default in Word 2000 and earlier), you probably need

{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield }" = "True" "___" "_X_" }

All the curly braces {} need to be the special field braces you can enter
using ctrl-F9

 

[Peter Jamieson]

You can format the text within the "results" using Format|Font