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Conditional text
TextMaker also allows you to work with conditional expressions, using the function
IF. By this means you can, for example, use “conditional text” in your documents.
A typical case: You have an address database with a field called GENDER, and the
record for each person contains either an “M” for male or an “F” for female in that
field, indicating the person’s gender. Using the following IF expression, you could
have TextMaker form a salutation according to gender:
IF (GENDER="M" ; "Dear Madam" ; "Dear Sir")
If you use this calculation in a form letter, TextMaker looks at each data record to
see if the GENDER field contains an “M”. If it does, TextMaker outputs “Dear
Sir”, as the replacement for the formula given above; otherwise, it outputs “Dear
Madam”.
Simple calculations with the press of a button
There is an alternative to the command Insert > Calculation described in the
previous sections: the command Edit > Evaluate.
The difference:
The command Insert > Calculation is suitable for calculations of any complexity
using variables, etc.
The command Edit > Evaluate is suitable only for more simple calculations, but it
is much easier to handle: You enter and select a formula directly in the text, invoke
Edit > Evaluate and immediately see the result in the text.
An example:
1. Type “The total is: 90+55+220”.
2. Select “90+55+220”.
3. Invoke the command Edit > Evaluate or press the (F8) key.
4. The formula “90+55+220” is calculated and the result is inserted in the text.
It doesn’t get any easier or faster: select a calculation and simply press (F8) to have
it calculated.
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