[MinMar]

Both the merge document and the recipient database are set up in the exact
same font. Once the mail merge is run, the merged fields have been inserted
in another font type.

Anyone know why? Thank!

[bill]

I merge into a Word doc from data in an Excel doc. To preserve the
formatting I first must save the Excel sheet as "text, tab delimited" and
merge from the text doc, not the Excel doc

"MinMar" wrote:

Both the merge document and the recipient database are set up in the exact
same font. Once the mail merge is run, the merged fields have been inserted
in another font type.

Anyone know why? Thank!

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

What font is applied to the merge fields in the main document. You can
force the font that you want by adding a \* format switch inside the closing
field delimiter } of the merge field and then apply the desire font
formatting to the M of Mergefield. You will need to use Alt+F9 to toggle on
the display of
the actual { MERGEFIELD fieldname } codes.
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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"MinMar" wrote in message
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Both the merge document and the recipient database are set up in the exact
same font. Once the mail merge is run, the merged fields have been
inserted
in another font type.

Anyone know why? Thank!