StyleRef field plus some text

Question

Hi all

This should be an easy one :)

I have a StyleRef field (and thanks to macropod, et al) only displays when the style in question is used in the file.

What I would like to do is add some text to the StyleRef field, so when the field displays it shows the StyleRef-text and the plain text as well.

{STYLEREF  "StyleName" "text"}

but I don't know the switches/syntax for this to work

cheers :)

Answer 1

All I can say is that it works as expected for me (I used Heading 1 as the referenced style). The position of the quotes is crucial. You must have quotes around the entire TrueText and around the stylename if it is more than one word but not anywhere else, lest Word interpret it as FalseText.

Answer 2

Thanks Suzanne for the reply

sorry but this does not work for me, the "text" appears regardless of the style use.

If there is no text with the Style that the StyleRef is looking for, there is nothing displayed.

If the style is used, the text with the style AND the "text" to appear.

Say Jabberwocky is the text with the style applied, then the StyleRef field should display "Jabberwocky text".

If style not used, nothing displayed.

Many thanks :)

Answer 3

You can use a field as TrueText without quotes, but once you add anything to it, you need the quotes, so what you need here is (you can omit the FalseText since it's blank):

{ IF { STYLEREF "stylename" } <> "Error!*" "{ STYLEREF "stylename" } text" }

Answer 4

here is what I have (from macropod)

{ IF{STYLEREF "stylename"}<> "Error!*" {STYLEREF "stylename" } }

this works fine, displaying and not displaying the styleref text as required

but if I add (like you say - if I got it right)

{ IF{STYLEREF "stylename"}<> "Error!*" {STYLEREF "stylename" } text" " " }

the styleref is displayed but not the extra text

I tried your code, the standard error is displayed if the style not used, and the Text is displayed regardless; I am after the text not to displayed when style not used and no error shown; and the text to display along with the StyleRef-text.

Answer 5

I am not sure what the StyleRef field construction that you are using returns if the style is NOT used in the file, but assuming that it is a space, you could use a construction such as

{ IF { STYLEREF "StyleName" } <> " " "{ STYLEREF "StyleName" } text" " " }