Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I can not right justify and have the
data look right. Here is an example of the data:
907__BASIC MET PROF 518__CBC W/DIFF 106__AFP
1600__COMP MET PROF 520__CBC W/O DIFF 428__CEA
915__LIPID PROF 546__PLATELET CT 210__CA 19-9
1601__HEP FUNC PROF 276__IRON PROF
Each line is a formatted line of text that I am treating as a merge field.
There is a lot of this data and there is no way to reliably parse the data
into individual fields. When I merge the delimited file manually using Word
it works fine with quotes, but using the program the merge document prints
with the quotes.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
Thanks
"Peter Jamieson" wrote:
If you want to right-align all these texts you would probably be better off
putting a right-aligned tab in Word immediately before the appropriate merge
field.
[Otherwise, unfortunately all the connection methods that Word can use to
get data from Excel strip off both leading and trailing blanks, except the
Excel converter, which is no longer provided with Word (since version 2002
or 2003, I forget which) or in the add-on converter pack. If you really
want, I think you can get a copy of the converter from Graham Mayor's
download page at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm . Be aware that the
converter has been withdrawn for a reason, has not been maintained for some
time, and will always pop up a dialog whenever you connect using it]
Peter Jamieson
"ksg" wrote in message
...
I have an automated mail merge program that accepts data from different
systems. The data is in an Excel Sheet. Some of the data has blanks in
the
data. The data would look something like this:
" DataField1"
" DataFields2"
etc.
I need to keep the leading blanks so the data will line up on the merged
document.
I have tried enclosing the data in "" in the Excel Cell. This keeps the
blanks, but the quotes print out on the document.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks