Which version of Word? When I try to do this in Office 2003, the tabs come
across no matter which way I connect to Excel (DDE, OLEDB, ODBC). (They do
/not/ come across if I just copy/paste into Word, unless I use Edit|Paste
Special and choose, e.g. RTF formatted text rather than HTML format).

Peter Jamieson
"mike_mike" wrote in message
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Hi

i standard letter with merge codes
{address}

Dear sir

These companies are in breach..
{mydata}

I want to all the following data into {mydata}
2005 tab Company 1
2006 tab company 2

I am merging from excel how do i get the tabs into word as they seem to be
turning to spaces? I do have them in the excel using char(9) in the source
data ..I do not want to use a list/catalog/directory merge just a standard
letter.