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Change carriage return to a line feed
I have data being merged to my word document from propietary software, that I
can't change. The data comes over like this: Mergefield1 = Response1 CR Response2 CR Response3 Mergefield2 = Response4 CR Response5 CR Response6 As such, when the responses print in my document, I can't get a hanging indent to work. Each response gets printed at the left margin. If I change the CR (carriage return) to LF (line feed) everything prints properly. Is there a way (other than manually) to get the data, when being merged, to change the Carriage returns to line feeds? Thanks, Mark |
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Change carriage return to a line feed
It would be best if you did not start a new thread for the same issue.
One way in addition to those that I mentioned in your other thread would be to use the datasource with a Directory type mailmerge main document in which you have the merge fields inside the cells of a one row table and then use Edit Replace to replace ^p with ^l, then add a row at the top of the table into the cells of which you insert the names of your mergefields and then save that document and use it as the data source for the mail merge that you originally wanted to perform. -- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "magicdds" wrote in message ... I have data being merged to my word document from propietary software, that I can't change. The data comes over like this: Mergefield1 = Response1 CR Response2 CR Response3 Mergefield2 = Response4 CR Response5 CR Response6 As such, when the responses print in my document, I can't get a hanging indent to work. Each response gets printed at the left margin. If I change the CR (carriage return) to LF (line feed) everything prints properly. Is there a way (other than manually) to get the data, when being merged, to change the Carriage returns to line feeds? Thanks, Mark |
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