Field code in Word that is conditional based on the presence of a style

Question

I have a Word template with a special table of contents associated with an "Appendix" paragraph style. Sometimes documents that use the template will use that style and sometimes they don't.

The field to create the table of contents looks like this:

{ TOC \n \h \z \t "Appendix" }

If the document uses the "Appendix" style, I want the table of contents to appear as normal, otherwise I want the word "None" to appear.

Here's a rough (and invalid) idea of what I'm trying to do:

{ IF (STYLEREF "Appendix") "{ TOC \n \h \z \t 'Appendix' }" "None" }

While it looks like if statements are supported in Word fields, I'm not sure how to construct this one (if what I'm trying to do is even possible). The above is not valid.

Answer 1

If the style Appendix is not used, then the STYLEREF field will return a value of "Error! No text of specified style in document."

So you should change your IF field to test if this value is the result, and switch your true and false options shown above. So that if the style isn't used (ie test is true), you want to show "None" otherwise show the TOC. See example field code below: