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IncludeText Field: font of text that is displayed following mail m
Hi there - I'm using an "Includetext" field to display the contents of a
second Word document within the footer of my main document. This second document is simply a three column table with text - some bold, some normal - inside it. All good so far. I had a number of issues with fonts changing during mail merges but think that *\CHARFORMAT may, just may, have resolved these. But, the text that is displayed in the merged document is all normal - no bold text "survives" the merge. Any ideas gratefully received! Cheers James |
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Charformat sets the formatting to that of the field. Try merging without the
switch. Make sure that the styles in the source document and target documents match so there is no conflict between the imported versions and the resident versions or use unique style names so there is no potential for conflict. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org James Spencer wrote: Hi there - I'm using an "Includetext" field to display the contents of a second Word document within the footer of my main document. This second document is simply a three column table with text - some bold, some normal - inside it. All good so far. I had a number of issues with fonts changing during mail merges but think that *\CHARFORMAT may, just may, have resolved these. But, the text that is displayed in the merged document is all normal - no bold text "survives" the merge. Any ideas gratefully received! Cheers James |
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Hi James,
When you use INCLUDETEXT fields, the imported text takes on the style attributes for in-common styles that appear in the target document. For example, If both documents use the 'Normal' style, defined as Arial in the source document and as Courier in the target document, the imported text will be converted to Courier. The \*CHARFORMAT switch simply overrides all style formatting of fonts by applying the formatting of the first letter of the 'I" in INCLUDETEXT to the entire result. The \*CHARFORMAT switch has no effect on paragraph formatting though. Cheers "James Spencer" wrote in message ... Hi there - I'm using an "Includetext" field to display the contents of a second Word document within the footer of my main document. This second document is simply a three column table with text - some bold, some normal - inside it. All good so far. I had a number of issues with fonts changing during mail merges but think that *\CHARFORMAT may, just may, have resolved these. But, the text that is displayed in the merged document is all normal - no bold text "survives" the merge. Any ideas gratefully received! Cheers James |
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Thanks guys. If I remove the \*Charformat switch, the merged text carries
different font sizes and is bold at random places - even though the source and IncludeText document have exactly the same font - strange. Did I mention that the IncludeText merges the text into a table. Anyway, if I add the \*Charformat switch, I lose the bold altogether but then at least the font is consistent. Seems I'm scuppered either way ! James "macropod" wrote: Hi James, When you use INCLUDETEXT fields, the imported text takes on the style attributes for in-common styles that appear in the target document. For example, If both documents use the 'Normal' style, defined as Arial in the source document and as Courier in the target document, the imported text will be converted to Courier. The \*CHARFORMAT switch simply overrides all style formatting of fonts by applying the formatting of the first letter of the 'I" in INCLUDETEXT to the entire result. The \*CHARFORMAT switch has no effect on paragraph formatting though. Cheers "James Spencer" wrote in message ... Hi there - I'm using an "Includetext" field to display the contents of a second Word document within the footer of my main document. This second document is simply a three column table with text - some bold, some normal - inside it. All good so far. I had a number of issues with fonts changing during mail merges but think that *\CHARFORMAT may, just may, have resolved these. But, the text that is displayed in the merged document is all normal - no bold text "survives" the merge. Any ideas gratefully received! Cheers James |
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