Different Mail Merge text for differing organisations

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I am writing a marketing letter and have a paragraph of text I wish to insert
in the letter for four diferent types of organisation. How can I do this?
 
If we are to assume from the subject of this post that this is a mail merge,
then how are you to determine which type of organisation the addressee
belongs to? Assuming that you have a data field that provides this
information, it is a simple matter to conditionally merge the appropriate
paragraph. This can be done by a variety of methods, the simplest being a
chain of conditional fields on the same line eg:

{IF {Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type1" "Put your type 1 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type2" "Put your type 2 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type3" "Put your type 3 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type3" "Put your type 3 para here"}

The fieldnames and text can be amended to suit your requirements. For more
complex texts you would be better using autotext or includetext fields -
similar to the method used at http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_graphics.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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Oops - a couple of typos crept in - it should have read:

{IF {Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type1" "Put your type 1 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type2" "Put your type 2 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type3" "Put your type 3 para here"}{IF
{Mergefield organizationtype} = "Type4" "Put your type 4 para here"}


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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