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Unwanted bolding in merge using Word/Excel 2000
I'm using a mail merge from an Excel 2000 spreadsheet into a Word 2000
document. The document's first stuff at all is merge fields (for name, address, city, state, zip - nothing unusual). Nothing in the document, and nothing in the .xls file, are bolded. But when I do the merge, the resultant document has all those first things (name, address,etc.) bolded. The other merge fields in the document merge fine, formatted or not formatted as I like. Why the unwanted bolding? How do I eliminate it (short of manually editing the merged document, something I'm loathe to do)? |
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The easiest way to eliminate it is probably to use Alt-F9 to reveal the
field codes and change e.g. { MERGEFIELD name } to { MERGEFIELD name \*Charformat } and ensure that the space before the M, and the M of "MERGEFORMAT", are not formatted as bold. Do the same for all the offending MERGEFIELD fields. If the fields are currently like { MERGEFIELD name \*Mergeformat } it may be enough just to remove the \*Mergeformat. Otherwise, change \*Mergeformat to \*Charformat and proceed as above. Peter Jamieson wrote in message ... I'm using a mail merge from an Excel 2000 spreadsheet into a Word 2000 document. The document's first stuff at all is merge fields (for name, address, city, state, zip - nothing unusual). Nothing in the document, and nothing in the .xls file, are bolded. But when I do the merge, the resultant document has all those first things (name, address,etc.) bolded. The other merge fields in the document merge fine, formatted or not formatted as I like. Why the unwanted bolding? How do I eliminate it (short of manually editing the merged document, something I'm loathe to do)? |
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