[********Meg]

Well, I think I got it, thanks to all of you guys and some help from a
friend. The difficult thing here is that I don't know where to get the
actual coding...but playing around a bit I learned that word, actually gives
you an area to go and say, if this is that then this........

All of that, plus the understanding that I got from this forum gave me the
help I needed.

Thank you.

the help screens leave a lot to be desired.

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Meg
"********Meg" wrote in message
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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