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Mail merge fields formatting
I'm creating mail merge documents. When the data is uploaded into the merge
document, the format of the merge field changes and does not match the rest of the Word Document. I attempt to correct the text format, but as soon as the document is printed, the format goes back to the original which does not match the rest of the document. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. |
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Mail merge fields formatting
Hi LO,
This sounds rather like the paragraph you've got the mailmerge field in is formatted with a particular Word Style, and someone has overridden that with hard-formatting. The best way of dealing with this is to use the Style definitions correctly. Having said that, there is a workaround: .. select the problem field .. press Shift-F9 to reveal the field coding, which should look something like: {MERGEFIELD MyData} .. format the 'M' in MERGEFIELD the way you want the output formatted .. add '\* Charformat' to the end of the field, thus: {MERGEFIELD MyData \* Charformat} .. delete the '\* Mergeformat' switch if it's present .. run your mailmerge. Cheers -- macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- "LO" wrote in message ... I'm creating mail merge documents. When the data is uploaded into the merge document, the format of the merge field changes and does not match the rest of the Word Document. I attempt to correct the text format, but as soon as the document is printed, the format goes back to the original which does not match the rest of the document. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. |
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