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SUMMARYIf you use wildcard characters, such as the asterisk (*) or question mark (?), in the criteria for a selective print merge operation, the results of your print merge may be incorrect or incomplete. This problem occurs if you use wildcards followed by an ordinal number in numeric format to define the selection criteria in the NEXTIF, SKIPIF, or IF fields. MORE INFORMATION
Word for Windows evaluates ordinal numbers in numeric format, such as
24th or 21st, as integers instead of text. This leads to incorrect
print merge results when an ordinal number follows a wildcard.
However, the following statements produce correct and complete print
merge results because non-ordinal alphabetic or numeric characters, or
ordinal numbers in alphabetic format follow the wildcard (?):
WORKAROUNDSTo work around this behavior, change the syntax of numeric records to alphabetic. The following is an example: "235 24th Ave." becomes "235 Twenty-Fourth Ave." "235 21st Ave." becomes "235 Twenty-First Ave."For more information on using wildcards to perform a selective print merge in Word for Windows, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: and wildcard and selective and records Additional query words: 6.0 2.0 conditional word6 winword winword2
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