[Kevin Bilbee]

We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that started
with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the leading tab
character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace characters?


Kevin Bilbee

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would suggest that you put the tab in the appropriate place in the mail
merge main document.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that started
with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the leading tab
character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace
characters?


Kevin Bilbee

[Kevin Bilbee]

OK my bad. Sometimes ther is data infront of the tab. So placing the tab in
the document will not work.


The places this happens we are prefomatting multi-line data so it will wrap
properly on the page.

Any other suggestions?



Kevin Bilbee



"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
I would suggest that you put the tab in the appropriate place in the mail
merge main document.

--
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

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that started
with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the leading tab
character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace
characters?


Kevin Bilbee

[Peter Jamieson]

To be honest, I can't remember which types of data source used to preserve
white space at the beginning of fields, but what type of file is your data
source?

Peter Jamieson

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that started
with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the leading tab
character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace
characters?


Kevin Bilbee

[Kevin Bilbee]

MS Access database file.



Kevin Bilbee



"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
...
To be honest, I can't remember which types of data source used to preserve
white space at the beginning of fields, but what type of file is your data
source?

Peter Jamieson

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that started
with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the leading tab
character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace
characters?


Kevin Bilbee

[Peter Jamieson]

Check Word Tools|Options|General|"confirm conversions at open", go through
the process of connecting to your database again, and select the DDE option
when offered.

Peter Jamieson

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
MS Access database file.



Kevin Bilbee



"Peter Jamieson" wrote in message
...
To be honest, I can't remember which types of data source used to
preserve white space at the beginning of fields, but what type of file is
your data source?

Peter Jamieson

"Kevin Bilbee" wrote in message
...
We just upgraded from Office 2000 to 2007 and our merge data that
started with a tab character now seems to be ignoring\striping the
leading tab character. This character is used for formatting.

How do I get office 2007 to not ignore\strip leading whitespace
characters?


Kevin Bilbee