Formatting Excel Text Fields in Word

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Lollygagger

I'm using Word and Excel 2003. I have an Excel database with formatted text
in that some of the words are bold, some are italicized, etc. in the same
field. I want to do a mail merge into a Word doc and maintain the same
appearance of the field in Word as it appears in Excel. Now it all come over
as plain text.
 
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

That is the only way that it can be done with mail merge. To maintain the
formatting, you would need to use Visual Basic to create a "roll-your-own"
equivalent to mail merge.

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Peter Jamieson

There is a "cheat" which sometimes works but should not be relied on too
much.
a. copy/paste your excel data into a Word document
b. use Alt-F9 to reveal your field codes. Where you need to retain the
formatting, change

{ MERGEFIELD myfield }
to
{ REF myfield }


Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk
 
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Lollygagger

Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Would Office 2007 do what I
need?
 

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