Hmmm, maybe I should add that (as you might expect with a directory) I have
put the merged records into a table: so each record produces one row of the
table. Maybe it's unstable tables that are contributing to the problem?
"Martin, Oldham" wrote:
Thanks for that...it produced interesting effects!
Now the contextual text is non-bold throughout (good), but instead the merge
fields are bold: on all records in the "view merged data" view, but only on
the first record when I merge to new document.
All further suggestions still welcome 
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
It sounds like the end of paragraph marker ΒΆ might be formatted as bold.
Try using Ctrl+A to select everything in the mail merge main document and
make sure that the embolding of text is turned off.
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"Martin, Oldham" Martin, wrote in message
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Hi,
I've successfully merged data from excel to make a directory. My problem
is
that when I add some text (prior to merging), for example "Tel:" before my
phone number field, then when I merge to document it appears in bold in
the
first record, but then not bold in the others. If I turn off the bold
formatting prior to merge document then it appears not bold in the first
record, but then bold in the others.
Help!
I'm using word 2003 btw.
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