[Larry W.]

When using mailmerge (WORD from Excel), how do you "retain" the Excel
formatting?

[Graham Mayor]

The short answer is that you don't. Word merges the underlying data. See
http://www.gmayor.com/formatting_word_fields.htm for a means of reformatting
the data in Word. However, you *may* find the following will work.

From the Tools menu in Word, select Options and then go to the General tab
and check the box against the "Confirm conversions at open" item. (In Word
2007 it is Office Button Word Options Advanced General Confirm file
format conversion on open). Then when you attach the data source to the mail
merge main document, you will be given the option of using the DDE method of
connection which should read the data as you have it formatted in the table.

DDE can however be flaky in use.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



Larry W. wrote:
When using mailmerge (WORD from Excel), how do you "retain" the Excel
formatting?