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2009-11-24 Microsoft Word - Mail merge IF statement and TC fields:

Although I've never tried anything like this, in principle it should work. Before we go any further--and I know how difficult it is to transcribe field constructions because you can't just copy/paste--is

2009-11-23 Microsoft Word - date format issue:

Mail merges in recent versions of Word do not respect Excel formatting. To format dates, currency, or numbers generally the way you want them, you need to add a switch to the merge field (see http://www

2009-11-23 Microsoft Word - Word Templates:

I haven't used Word 2007 extensively, but my understanding is that Word 2003 .dot templates will, for the most part work just fine in Word 2007, with the exception that some macros may not run exactly

2009-11-23 WordPerfect - Back up files:

The easy option (assuming you saved the document and it is still somewhere on the HD) is to do a file search using the option of searching for text within the file. This is done differently depending on

2009-11-22 Microsoft Word - Header/Footer page number Alignment:

As explained in my article at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm, each section can have up to three headers and footers. If you enable "Different first page," you can have a separate First