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Old May 6th, 2004, 05:23 AM
Andrew
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Default Format to combine Truetext fields & special characters?

I am having trouble getting the format right if I want to
combine a field, paragraph break and a second field as one
Truetext. eg.

{IF MergeCode="Home" "{ContactName} newparagraph {Contact
Address}" {FalsetextField}}

....but, what to put in the newparagraph spot. I've tried
Chr(), but it just prints Chr(). If I close the "", I can't
get the appending to work. I've tried Special Characters,
but it just prints the special character.

On True, I'd like the results to be:
"Contact Name
Contact Address"

But the best I can get is:
"Contact Name Contact Address"

Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Andrew
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Old May 6th, 2004, 07:03 AM
Peter Jamieson
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Default Format to combine Truetext fields & special characters?

It's even simpler than you think (I think :-) ) - position the insertion
point after [ContactName] and press the enter key, just as you would to
create an ordinary new paragraph outside a field.

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Peter Jamieson

"Andrew" wrote in message
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I am having trouble getting the format right if I want to
combine a field, paragraph break and a second field as one
Truetext. eg.

{IF MergeCode="Home" "{ContactName} newparagraph {Contact
Address}" {FalsetextField}}

...but, what to put in the newparagraph spot. I've tried
Chr(), but it just prints Chr(). If I close the "", I can't
get the appending to work. I've tried Special Characters,
but it just prints the special character.

On True, I'd like the results to be:
"Contact Name
Contact Address"

But the best I can get is:
"Contact Name Contact Address"

Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Andrew



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Old May 6th, 2004, 02:43 PM
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Default Format to combine Truetext fields & special characters?

Ooops, thanks. Just trying to make life hard for myself.

-----Original Message-----
It's even simpler than you think (I think :-) ) - position

the insertion
point after [ContactName] and press the enter key, just as

you would to
create an ordinary new paragraph outside a field.

--
Peter Jamieson

"Andrew" wrote in

message
...
I am having trouble getting the format right if I want to
combine a field, paragraph break and a second field as one
Truetext. eg.

{IF MergeCode="Home" "{ContactName} newparagraph {Contact
Address}" {FalsetextField}}

...but, what to put in the newparagraph spot. I've tried
Chr(), but it just prints Chr(). If I close the "", I can't
get the appending to work. I've tried Special Characters,
but it just prints the special character.

On True, I'd like the results to be:
"Contact Name
Contact Address"

But the best I can get is:
"Contact Name Contact Address"

Suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Andrew



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