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Formatting names
Working on a big mail merge. I'm merging several different list and everyone
participating used a different case format - some all upper, some mixed. I want to standardize them all - which is no problem. How do I get Word (or Excel) to format the McC/MacC, etc. names correctly without having to do find/replace work? -- AV Greene |
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Formatting names
HI AV
AV Greene wrote: Working on a big mail merge. I'm merging several different list and everyone participating used a different case format - some all upper, some mixed. I want to standardize them all - which is no problem. How do I get Word (or Excel) to format the McC/MacC, etc. names correctly without having to do find/replace work? Well, it's certainly recommended that you do all such "formatting" work in the "database" (your Excel files) prior to the merge. And I doubt you'll get around the find/replace, unless your data are structured in a way that you can build up the title/address of a person through other fields (sex). Usually "bad data" need to be corrected, and if search/replace in Excel really does your job (even with a couple of runs), you might be lucky! :-) HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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