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For example, you can define the conditional text that is displayed in a series of reminder letters.</paragraph> 50 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155895" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="6">Setting up conditional text in this example is a two-part process. First you create a variable, and then you create the condition.</paragraph> 51 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3153175" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 52 oldref="61">To Define a Conditional Variable</paragraph> 53 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153185" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="62">The first part of the example is to define a variable for the condition statement. </paragraph> 54 <list type="ordered"> 55 <listitem> 56 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155566" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="8">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Fields - Other</item>, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Variables</item> tab.</paragraph> 57 </listitem> 58 <listitem> 59 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147759" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="9">Click "Set variable" in the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> 60 <emph/>list.</paragraph> 61 </listitem> 62 <listitem> 63 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147784" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Type a name for the variable in the <item type="menuitem">Name</item> box, for example <item type="literal">Reminder</item>.</paragraph> 64 </listitem> 65 <listitem> 66 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147810" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="57">Click "Text" in the<emph/> 67 <item type="menuitem">Format</item> list.</paragraph> 68 </listitem> 69 <listitem> 70 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id7748344" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Enter <item type="literal">1</item> in the <item type="menuitem">Value</item> box, and then click <item type="menuitem">Insert</item>.<br/>The Format list now displays a "General" format.</paragraph> 71 </listitem> 72 </list> 73 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3145645" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 74 oldref="63">To Define a Condition and the Conditional Text</paragraph> 75 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145659" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="64">The second part of the example is to define the condition that must be met, and to insert a placeholder for displaying the conditional text in your document.</paragraph> 76 <list type="ordered"> 77 <listitem> 78 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151193" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="12">Place the cursor where you want to insert the conditional text in your text.</paragraph> 79 </listitem> 80 <listitem> 81 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151212" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="65">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Fields - Other</item>, and then click the <item type="menuitem">Functions</item> tab.</paragraph> 82 </listitem> 83 <listitem> 84 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151250" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="13">Click "Conditional text" in the <item type="menuitem">Type</item> 85 <emph/>list.</paragraph> 86 </listitem> 87 <listitem> 88 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155936" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="14">Type <item type="literal">Reminder EQ "3"</item> in the <item type="menuitem">Condition</item> 89 <emph/>box. In other words, the conditional text will be displayed when the variable in the field that you defined in the first part of this example is equal to three.</paragraph> 90 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155969" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="15">The quotation marks enclosing the "3" indicate that the variable that you defined in the first part of this example is a text string.</paragraph> 91 </listitem> 92 </list> 93 <list type="ordered" startwith="5"> 94 <listitem> 95 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150446" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="16">Type the text that you want to display when the condition is met in the <emph>Then</emph> box. There is almost no limit to the length of the text that you can enter. You can paste a paragraph into this box.</paragraph> 96 </listitem> 97 <listitem> 98 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150473" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="17">Click <emph>Insert</emph>, and then click <emph>Close</emph>.</paragraph> 99 </listitem> 100 </list> 101 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3155073" role="heading" level="2" l10n="U" 102 oldref="66">To Display the Conditional Text</paragraph> 103 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155086" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="67">In this example, the conditional text is displayed when the value of the conditional variable is equal to 3.</paragraph> 104 <list type="ordered"> 105 <listitem> 106 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155110" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="19">Place your cursor in front of the field that you defined in the first part of this example, and then choose <emph>Edit - Fields</emph>.</paragraph> 107 </listitem> 108 <listitem> 109 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155136" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="68">Replace the number in the <item type="menuitem">Value</item> 110 <emph/>box with 3, and then click<emph/> 111 <item type="menuitem">Close</item>.</paragraph> 112 </listitem> 113 <listitem> 114 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155168" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="20">If the field does not automatically update, press F9.</paragraph> 115 </listitem> 116 </list> 117 <section id="relatedtopics"> 118 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/fields_userdata.xhp#fields_userdata"/> 119 <embed href="text/swriter/guide/conditional_text2.xhp#conditional_text2"/> 120 <embed href="text/swriter/01/04090200.xhp#defining_conditions"/> 121 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145714" role="paragraph" l10n="C"><link href="text/swriter/02/14020000.xhp" name="List of conditional operators">List of conditional operators</link></paragraph> 122 </section> 123 </body> 124</helpdocument>