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How do I make mass format changes to mail merge fields?
I have several MS Word documents that contain a high concentration of merge
fields (each document has upwards of 80-150 merge fields). As experienced mail-merge users already know, formatting is not retained from the data source, so I am expected to provide formatting instructions via merge field "switches" such as \# $#,###.00 right within the merge field code itself. This is fine for documents with just a few fields to adjust, but I'm looking at hundreds and hundreds of fields here. My problem is that typing formatting switches into each individual merge field, one at a time, is very labour-intensive for documents such as mine. Is there a way to apply these switches en-masse or perform some sort of search & replace, taking merge field code into account? It just seems very odd to me that a mature product such as MS Word butchers decimal numbers so horribly (e.g. 40.1 is expressed as either 40.09999999999999 or as 40.10000000000000000001) and provide no way of formatting these, except individually & manually. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. ps: I am using SQL Server as a datasource, not that this should matter. The datatype of the fields in question is "float" |
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