[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

It sounds like the end of paragraph marker ¶ might be formatted as bold.

Try using Ctrl+A to select everything in the mail merge main document and
make sure that the embolding of text is turned off.

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"Martin, Oldham" Martin, wrote in message
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Hi,
I've successfully merged data from excel to make a directory. My problem
is
that when I add some text (prior to merging), for example "Tel:" before my
phone number field, then when I merge to document it appears in bold in
the
first record, but then not bold in the others. If I turn off the bold
formatting prior to merge document then it appears not bold in the first
record, but then bold in the others.

Help!

I'm using word 2003 btw.