Replace what you have with
{ IF{ MERGEFIELD RequiredReading } "" "Required Reading: { Mergefield
RequiredReading }"}
Use CTRL+F9 for each set of field brackets and type the rest. Format
"Required Reading:" as bold font and the
final { Mergefield RequiredReading }as italic.
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********Meg wrote:
thanks, I think I understand what you are saying, but I'm not clear
in how to do the formatting. This is VERY new for me.
here is what I have
{mergefeild Required Reading\b "required reading:'}
I want the text Required Reading (which is the text that will appear
if there is anything in the field ) to be bold and the content of the
field to be italics (i.e., it's a book title so it should be).
Ex:
Required Reading (in bold): How to use excel, by So and So (in
italics)
thanks for your help, if this can work. it would be GREAT!
Meg
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Assuming you are using
{ MERGEFIELD myfield \b "beforetext: " }
I don't think you can achieve the formatting you need using that
technique (even replacing "beforetext" by "{ QUOTE beforetext:
\*Charformat } and formatting the Q the way you want does not work).
Instead, try
{ IF "{ MERGEFIELD myfield }" = "" "" "beforetext:: { MERGEFIELD
myfield\*Charformat }" }
then format beforetext: the way you want it and format the M of the
second MERGEFIELD the way you want it.
Ensure all the {} are ht especial field code braces you can insert
using ctrl-F9
Peter Jamieson
"********Meg" wrote in
message ...
I recently learned (very happily, I might add) to edit a mail merge
field to include text before or after that field. Another fabulous
feature is that the text will not appear if there is no data in the
datasource for that particular record. This is a very cool
feature. (office 2003) However, I want to format both the text that is
before the field
and the actual data in the field (one would be bold and one would
be italics) When I change the info in my form, it looks good, but
when I do the merge,
all of the formatting disappears. If I italicize the information
in the data source document , it looses it's formatting as well.
any ideas?
thanks
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Meg