[Perry48]

I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

[Peter Jamieson]

Make a backup copy of your document before trying this.

Select the entire body of the document (e.g. ctrl-A), and "unlink" the
fields using ctrl-shift-F9. Most field codes will be replaced by their
results. If you need to do headers and footers as well, you need a bit of
VBA to loop around everything.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Perry48" wrote in message
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I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like
no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

[Perry48]

That is so simple - I wonder why I couldn't find it in the commands or
anywhere in help. I can just use Find & Replace then to also remove the
& characters.

ThankYouVeryMuch Peter,
Perry


"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

Make a backup copy of your document before trying this.

Select the entire body of the document (e.g. ctrl-A), and "unlink" the
fields using ctrl-shift-F9. Most field codes will be replaced by their
results. If you need to do headers and footers as well, you need a bit of
VBA to loop around everything.

--
Peter Jamieson
http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

"Perry48" wrote in message
...
I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like
no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.

[Megtastic]

If you move the data source to a different folder, then open your document,
it wont be able to find its source and you will get an option to remove the
merge info. The ctrl + Shift +F9 didnt work for me and this is the only way I
can get rid of it.

"Perry48" wrote:

I want to be able to remove all mail merge formatting from a document and
keep the text.

I haven't found an answer to this seemingly simple challenge. It's like no
one would ever want to go back once you have set any words to mailmerge.

ThankYouVeryMuch for this forum & explanations.