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Field formatting problem
Hi,
I'm having a real problem with field formatting in MS Word 2003 that, despite many hours of fiddling around, I haven't been able to solve and I was hoping someone here could shed some light on this. I'm trying to use a ref field to replicate several lines of text entered into a textbox elsewhere in my document while maintaining the formatting I specify for the ref field. Each time I modify the original text in the textbox and update the ref field, the formatting I specified at the ref field is only half respected - the first and last lines of text are formatted as I'd like but the middle line is formatted differently. Each time I re-apply the formatting to the entire field and re-update it, this bizarre inconsistent formatting returns. I've tried using the different MERGEFORMAT and CHARFORMAT switches to see if this makes a difference, and it doesn't seem to. I've also tried removing all switches altogether. These are the various combinations I've tried: { REF Tab23 \* } { REF Tab23 \* MERGEFORMAT } { REF Tab23 \* CHARFORMAT } But all produce the same output. For example the output I receive is: General Hospital (bold, size 16) Clinical Records (regular, size 8) Patient A (bold, size 16) The bold, size 12 text was what I wanted but as you can see, the middle line loses the formatting. Would somebody be able to point me in the right direction? Am I using the wrong switch here? I just need consistent formatting for each line of text. Any help would be appreciated, Cheers, Adrian __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4006 (20090414) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com |
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Hi Adrian,
Your field coded as { REF Tab23 \* CHARFORMAT } should work, provided you format the 'R' in 'REF' with the attributes you want. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Adrian Buchan" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm having a real problem with field formatting in MS Word 2003 that, despite many hours of fiddling around, I haven't been able to solve and I was hoping someone here could shed some light on this. I'm trying to use a ref field to replicate several lines of text entered into a textbox elsewhere in my document while maintaining the formatting I specify for the ref field. Each time I modify the original text in the textbox and update the ref field, the formatting I specified at the ref field is only half respected - the first and last lines of text are formatted as I'd like but the middle line is formatted differently. Each time I re-apply the formatting to the entire field and re-update it, this bizarre inconsistent formatting returns. I've tried using the different MERGEFORMAT and CHARFORMAT switches to see if this makes a difference, and it doesn't seem to. I've also tried removing all switches altogether. These are the various combinations I've tried: { REF Tab23 \* } { REF Tab23 \* MERGEFORMAT } { REF Tab23 \* CHARFORMAT } But all produce the same output. For example the output I receive is: General Hospital (bold, size 16) Clinical Records (regular, size 8) Patient A (bold, size 16) The bold, size 12 text was what I wanted but as you can see, the middle line loses the formatting. Would somebody be able to point me in the right direction? Am I using the wrong switch here? I just need consistent formatting for each line of text. Any help would be appreciated, Cheers, Adrian __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4006 (20090414) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com |
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Hi,
Me again posting from a different address. Thank you so much for the information, this solved the problem straight away. Much appreciated. Adrian |
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