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Subject:Re: What is conditional text? From:Christopher Knight <knight -at- ADA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:17 PDT
Conditional text is text that is included in a document if a condition is True (or, False). Mailmerge features usually incorporate this facility.
It is very useful for document modularity, since you can prepare a master file with conditional text to be printed or not depending on the
condition.
Word 6 includes an IF field which accomplishes this, although not nearly
as easily as FrameMaker. I used Word 6 like this to produce a Guide for
UNIX and DOS from the same Word file.
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