I'm using Excel and Word 2002 and have used mail merge quite a bit. Having a
problem today - whenever I merge my document the merged information shows up
in a different font and is bolded and larger than the rest of the text. I've
tried highlighting and changing font and nothing happens.

Any ideas?
--
KP

Use Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes and add a \* charformat switch
inside the } and the apply the desired formatting to the M of MERGEFIELD.
Then, toggle off the display of the field codes and execute the merge.

--
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

"KP" wrote in message
...
I'm using Excel and Word 2002 and have used mail merge quite a bit. Having
a
problem today - whenever I merge my document the merged information shows
up
in a different font and is bolded and larger than the rest of the text.
I've
tried highlighting and changing font and nothing happens.

Any ideas?
--
KP

Hi Doug,

I must be doing this wrong because I got an error message which says "Error!
Switch argument not specified."

Here is what my field code looks like: { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* }. If I
understand your directions correctly, I also highlighted the M in Mergefield
and clicked on Format, Font and selected Bookman Old Style, Normal, Size 11.

Sorry for the confusion. This is a new problem for me and I'm not used to
working with the field codes.

Thanks.
--
KP


"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Use Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes and add a \* charformat switch
inside the } and the apply the desired formatting to the M of MERGEFIELD.
Then, toggle off the display of the field codes and execute the merge.

--
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

"KP" wrote in message
...
I'm using Excel and Word 2002 and have used mail merge quite a bit. Having
a
problem today - whenever I merge my document the merged information shows
up
in a different font and is bolded and larger than the rest of the text.
I've
tried highlighting and changing font and nothing happens.

Any ideas?
--
KP

It should read { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* Charformat}

and not { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* }


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




KP wrote:
Hi Doug,

I must be doing this wrong because I got an error message which says
"Error! Switch argument not specified."

Here is what my field code looks like: { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* }. If
I understand your directions correctly, I also highlighted the M in
Mergefield and clicked on Format, Font and selected Bookman Old
Style, Normal, Size 11.

Sorry for the confusion. This is a new problem for me and I'm not
used to working with the field codes.

Thanks.

Use Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes and add a \* charformat
switch inside the } and the apply the desired formatting to the M of
MERGEFIELD. Then, toggle off the display of the field codes and
execute the merge.

--
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

"KP" wrote in message
...
I'm using Excel and Word 2002 and have used mail merge quite a bit.
Having a
problem today - whenever I merge my document the merged information
shows up
in a different font and is bolded and larger than the rest of the
text. I've
tried highlighting and changing font and nothing happens.

Any ideas?
--
KP

That did the trick. Thanks Graham!
--
KP


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

It should read { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* Charformat}

and not { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* }


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




KP wrote:
Hi Doug,

I must be doing this wrong because I got an error message which says
"Error! Switch argument not specified."

Here is what my field code looks like: { MERGEFIELD "Amount" \* }. If
I understand your directions correctly, I also highlighted the M in
Mergefield and clicked on Format, Font and selected Bookman Old
Style, Normal, Size 11.

Sorry for the confusion. This is a new problem for me and I'm not
used to working with the field codes.

Thanks.

Use Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes and add a \* charformat
switch inside the } and the apply the desired formatting to the M of
MERGEFIELD. Then, toggle off the display of the field codes and
execute the merge.

--
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

"KP" wrote in message
...
I'm using Excel and Word 2002 and have used mail merge quite a bit.
Having a
problem today - whenever I merge my document the merged information
shows up
in a different font and is bolded and larger than the rest of the
text. I've
tried highlighting and changing font and nothing happens.

Any ideas?
--
KP