Yes, this document is linked to an external database. The field switches
that apply to formatting that have been included are \l "28" and \b "44".
Being new to this functionality and not being the original creator of this
document, I haven't been able to figure out what the "28" relates to. Do you
just count down 28 entries in the "table styles" list of the
Table-Auto-Format window? HELP wasn't real clear on this. I'm currently
running Office/Word 2003. Thanks for your help.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?RGFuQg==?=,

I have a mail-merge document that also includes a table filled from an
external database. I have been trying to format the columns in the table to
different lengths to accomodate a "name" a "date" and a "dollar amount".
Everything seems to work fine except that as soon as I merge to a new
document, the resulting tables have all three columns the same width. And
what's more, the table in my mail-merge template now has equal-width columns
as well. If I close the merged document and the template and then re-open
the template, voila...my columns are back to my preferred widths. I've
ensured that "automatically resize to fit contents" is turned off in my table
definition so it's got to be something else.

Version of word? Is this table linked to outside data (a DataBase field)? If
yes, what switches (things that start with a \) does it contain? Mainly, I'm
concerned whether there's a \* Mergeformat switch in there. Also, which version
of Word do you have?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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