form letter font style trouble

[Frank]

W98/Using MS word (Office 97) and Outlook 97 personal addressbook. I am
making a form letter mail merge using addresses I entered in an outlook
personal addressbook. everyhting works great, Except the font for the names
and addresses of the recipients is bold and ugly. I have tried formatting it
every which way, print preview looks fine, but it prints out with the merge
fields in this bold ugly font. what am I missing here? I am sure it is
something easy, but I cannot find it.
Thanks so much
Frank L

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Frank,

With the mail merge main document active, press Alt+F9 to toggle on the
field codes and inside the closing } of the field codes, add the \*
Charformat switch and then apply the formatting that you want to be used to
the first letter of the field code.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Frank]

Hello Doug,
Thanks, that worked great. Fixed it right up. Doug, I have been to many
sights that describe how to do a mail merge. Is there a place that will
actually explain (somewhat in detail) what is occurring and how and why?
everything I have found does not explain the how or why?
Thanks again,
Frank L