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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in
each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK
field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Doug - I didn't have a \* but a \o. I tried replacing it with the \* and
then got this "Error! Bookmark not defined". "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
Hi Winters,
Since ASK fields don't display any output, I'm curious as to what you mean by "the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in". If you mean that the cross-references to the bookmark set by the ASK field differs from the surrounding text, you can add a '\* Charformat' switch to each of the cross-reference fields after formatting at least the first character of each of those fields' code in desired format. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Winters" wrote in message ... Doug - I didn't have a \* but a \o. I tried replacing it with the \* and then got this "Error! Bookmark not defined". "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
Okay, here's what I have in the first part of the letter:
{ASK LetterDate "Enter the date of the letter."\o}{LetterDate} Then further down in the letter this same date needs to be added so I have put in{LetterDate}. It is here that the date is showing up in a different font. I'm not a programmer by any means so can you tell me exactly what these should look like in order to remain the same font as the surroiunding text? Thank you!!!! "macropod" wrote: Hi Winters, Since ASK fields don't display any output, I'm curious as to what you mean by "the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in". If you mean that the cross-references to the bookmark set by the ASK field differs from the surrounding text, you can add a '\* Charformat' switch to each of the cross-reference fields after formatting at least the first character of each of those fields' code in desired format. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Winters" wrote in message ... Doug - I didn't have a \* but a \o. I tried replacing it with the \* and then got this "Error! Bookmark not defined". "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
Toggle the field Alt+F9 to display {LetterDate} and change it to {
LetterDate \*Charformat}. Press F9 to update and toggle back again. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Winters wrote: Okay, here's what I have in the first part of the letter: {ASK LetterDate "Enter the date of the letter."\o}{LetterDate} Then further down in the letter this same date needs to be added so I have put in{LetterDate}. It is here that the date is showing up in a different font. I'm not a programmer by any means so can you tell me exactly what these should look like in order to remain the same font as the surroiunding text? Thank you!!!! "macropod" wrote: Hi Winters, Since ASK fields don't display any output, I'm curious as to what you mean by "the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in". If you mean that the cross-references to the bookmark set by the ASK field differs from the surrounding text, you can add a '\* Charformat' switch to each of the cross-reference fields after formatting at least the first character of each of those fields' code in desired format. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Winters" wrote in message ... Doug - I didn't have a \* but a \o. I tried replacing it with the \* and then got this "Error! Bookmark not defined". "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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Using an ASK field and the font keeps changing
It worked! Thank you so much Graham.
"Graham Mayor" wrote: Toggle the field Alt+F9 to display {LetterDate} and change it to { LetterDate \*Charformat}. Press F9 to update and toggle back again. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Winters wrote: Okay, here's what I have in the first part of the letter: {ASK LetterDate "Enter the date of the letter."\o}{LetterDate} Then further down in the letter this same date needs to be added so I have put in{LetterDate}. It is here that the date is showing up in a different font. I'm not a programmer by any means so can you tell me exactly what these should look like in order to remain the same font as the surroiunding text? Thank you!!!! "macropod" wrote: Hi Winters, Since ASK fields don't display any output, I'm curious as to what you mean by "the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in". If you mean that the cross-references to the bookmark set by the ASK field differs from the surrounding text, you can add a '\* Charformat' switch to each of the cross-reference fields after formatting at least the first character of each of those fields' code in desired format. -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Winters" wrote in message ... Doug - I didn't have a \* but a \o. I tried replacing it with the \* and then got this "Error! Bookmark not defined". "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Press Alt+F9 to toggle on the display of the field codes, and in the ASK field, add a \* charformat switch (replacing the \* mergeformat if it is there) and then apply the desired font to the A of ASK. -- 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 "Winters" wrote in message ... I'm using the ASK field in a Word merge document and the font is different in each place that the ASK field fills in. I have highlighted the entire "form" and set it to one font size/type so I don't know where it's getting the different fonts. Can anyone help me? |
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