Do you have the box against "Confirm conversions at open" checked in Office
Button Word Options Advanced General? Did you re-attach the data
source to the main document? If you did, did a dialog box open asking you
for the method by which the connection should be made? If it did, did you
click on the "Show all connections" button? That may be required to expose
the DDE connection method.
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Hope this helps.
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"Michael Koerner" wrote in message
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Graham;
Tried your suggestion, didn't work for me. I didn't receive any options to
use DDE. Is this because I'm using a Word template that I created back in
2003?
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Michael Koerner
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The default merge will only merge the raw data. You can format the field and
add a charformat switch to ensure that the formatting sticks, but if your
italics are only in part of the field this won't help much. In that case,
from the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word
2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file
format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail
merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of
connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table.
However DDE connection can be quite flaky.
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"Michael Koerner" wrote in message
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Using Office 2007, when I do a mail merge using Excel as the data source.
The items I have in italics in Excel are removed once the merge is complete
in Word. Is there as setting I can use to ensure that font formatting is
retained? Or, maybe a macro that I can run after the merge is complete to
change everything in () to italics including the ()
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Michael Koerner