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Default When I merge data the output has a strange icon next to it--why?

I created labels and merged data from an Xcel file (mailing addresses of over
200 clients). In the output document the Street field data has a cross
icon at the end of every line. The Street field in the Xcel data source
is a formula based on info from other cells. Does this have something to do
with it?
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Default When I merge data the output has a strange icon next to it--why?

Hi ?B?dGVk?=,

I created labels and merged data from an Xcel file (mailing addresses of over
200 clients). In the output document the Street field data has a cross
icon at the end of every line. The Street field in the Xcel data source
is a formula based on info from other cells. Does this have something to do
with it?

this isn't ringing ANY bells with me; I've never seen anything like this, nor
reports of such a thing - and I've been supporting Word mail merge for almost 15
years.

Which version of Word/Office is this? Could you show me the formula in Excel
that's creating the Street field's content? By "cross icon" do you mean a
graphical symbol of some sort? The letter X? The + sign? Something else?

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

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The version is MSFT Word X for Mac.
The formula is PROPER. (This changes the text of a cell from all caps to the
first letter Cap and the rest of each word in lower case.)
The cross icon is a graphic symbol that looks like sort of like a t but with
a longer vertical line:
416 Central Ave€*

I solved it by using the replace command in Word, and replacing the cross
with a space.


"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?dGVk?=,

I created labels and merged data from an Xcel file (mailing addresses of over
200 clients). In the output document the Street field data has a cross
icon at the end of every line. The Street field in the Xcel data source
is a formula based on info from other cells. Does this have something to do
with it?

this isn't ringing ANY bells with me; I've never seen anything like this, nor
reports of such a thing - and I've been supporting Word mail merge for almost 15
years.

Which version of Word/Office is this? Could you show me the formula in Excel
that's creating the Street field's content? By "cross icon" do you mean a
graphical symbol of some sort? The letter X? The + sign? Something else?

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

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