I keep track of hikes we do in an EXCEL spreadsheet. I use WORD to create journal pages using a lot of MERGEFIELDS. I have clean maps of parks. After we do a hike, I use an editor to draw a route on the clean map of where we hiked producing a route map.
I would like to INCLUDEPICTURE the route map if there is one, otherwise a clean map. For these examples "Death Valley Map.jpg" does exist, "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" does not exist.
I cannot see that "{ IF TRUE ..." ever does anything. Is there some WORD option or switch that needs to be set? My problem is that I cannot get any if test to branch false when the file does not exist.
| Test Case | Test Result |
|---|---|
{ IF "Death Valley Map.jpg" } |
null |
{ IF "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" } |
null |
{ IF "Death Valley Map.jpg" "GoodA" "BadA" } |
GoodA |
{ IF "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" "GoodB" "BadB" } |
GoodB |
{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" } |
Death Valley Map.jpg |
{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" } |
Death Valley Map Route.jpg |
{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" "GoodC" "BadC" } |
Death Valley Map.jpg |
{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" "GoodD" "BadD" } |
Death Valley Map Route.jpg |
{ IF { IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" } "GoodE" "BadE" } |
GoodE |
{ IF { IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" } "GoodF" "BadF" } |
GoodF |
{ IF { IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" } <> "" "GoodG" "BadG" } |
GoodG |
{ IF { IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" } <> "" "GoodH" "BadH" } |
GoodH |
{ IF { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" }" \d } "GoodI" "BadI" } |
GoodI |
{ IF { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" }" \d } "GoodJ" "BadJ" } |
GoodJ |
{ IF { IF TRUE { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" }" \d } } "GoodK" "BadK" } |
GoodK |
{ IF { IF TRUE { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" }" \d } } "GoodL" "BadL" } |
GoodL |
{ IF { IF TRUE { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map.jpg" }" \d } } <> "" "GoodM" "BadM" } |
GoodM |
{ IF { IF TRUE { INCLUDEPICTURE "{ IF TRUE "Death Valley Map Route.jpg" }" \d } } <> "" "GoodN" "BadN" } |
GoodN |
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