Hmmm... that's interesting. The only trouble I've ever had with the
MergeFormat switch is in not having it applied. Of course, my cross
references are all to headings and they're all formatted only by the heading
style so there's no opportunity for format overrides to creep in. And I do
use A LOT of cross references, every one of which gets tagged with the
MergeFormat switch.
Mike
"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message
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Hi Mike,
There seems to be something that controls it but I can't find it.
It seemed for a while that it would be checked by default unless I was
inserting a cross reference into a table cell, in which case it would be
unchecked by default. Lately, it's unchecked all the time. Why?? I
haven't a
clue.
Nor I. Probably, only the person who wrote the C++ code some 10 years ago
knows :-)
Personally, I detest this particular switch because it can give you some
really weird results. MergeFormat notes, character by character, what
formatting has been applied. If the content of the field result changes,
the
formatting can end up being in the wrong place, and impossible to get rid
of.
I'll use it, on occasion, for linked Excel tables...
CharFormat applies the font formatting of the first field character to all
characters in the field.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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