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This one has me puzzled. It seemed like an easy task, but the solution eludes me: – How do you substring a merge field in a Word template used for mail merging?
For example, I have something like {MERGEFIELD barcodevalue} and I want to extract the first 6 characters as it is at the same time an identifier for something else.
I can find information on how to remove chars to the left of a given position in a numerical field (\x) but not to the right.
What is the data provider for your mail merge data? If it is an SQL query you could use the substr/substring function of SQL.
Anyway it might be easier to change your source data/query instead of tweaking mailmerge fieldcodes, which seems to be limited.