Ok, I've decided that my first posting was wayyy long and I figure most people didn't have time to read it. So I've taken one piece of it and decided to make a separate post.
I don't even know if I'm using the term "with conditonal parameters" correctly or not, but anyways here's what I've got.
We're sending out an RFI to several hospitals across the country. Some of these hosp. specialize in more than one type of transplant, for example: Heart, Liver & Lung. And some others only specialize in Bone Marrow.
Before i got here, someone created a general letter with paragraphs that relate to all 3 major types (categories) of transplants:
A) solid organ (emcompasses things like Heart; Liver; Lung)
b) bone marrow (no sub-items for this cat.)
c) stem cell (no sub-items for this cat.)
In the mail merge form letter, I've inserted a field for the type of transplant which gets inserted into the first paragraph.
So what I have been doing is (after the mail merge) manually examining each merged document, looking at the first paragraph and deleting specific portions of the letter that do not relate to that hospital. That's time consuming and inefficient - I've got 80+ RFIs to send out.
Is there some way that VBA can look for a certain word in the beginning paragraph (or in a specific bookmark) and then based on the key word(s), delete specific portions of the letter?
BTW, I'm very impressed by the level of knowledge here. So many good pple who know their stuff - I'm really glad I found this site.