Cindy,

I think they said something to the effect of it being recognized as a
product "limitation", and that they knew it should be fixed, and that they
have had requests for it to be fixed, but that the demand wasn't high enough
to justify adding it to their fix/improvements list.

Robert

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi Robert,

I tried to find a solution to this problem about 2 years ago, and couldn't
find one. You are correct, this is a bug, and Microsoft knows it but won't
fix it.

Did Microsoft say it was a bug, or that it's workign "as designed"?
MergeFormat doesn't take everything into account, just certain formatting
aspects. You may or may not agree with the design, but it's only a bug if it's
not working as it was designed :-)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)