HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?

[Yolande Choquette]

We use Word 97.

I retrieved a main merge letter from 6 months ago, I used the same file for
the records.

I have a field in the main document (ie Mr. President) on page 1 and I use
the same field at the end of the letter, page 2.

Now, the funny thing is that on page 2, the field is in bold whereas on page
1, the same field is not in bold.

I checked on my main document, there is no bold before or after the field on
page 2.

I even deleted the whole paragraph on page 2, and I re-inserted the field
after the signature, and it still is in bold.

Anyone knows why?



Yolande Choquette

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Yolande,

I don't know how it happened, but you can control the formatting of a
mergefield by adding a \* CHARFORMAT switch to the field and apply the
desired formatting to the M of { MAILMERGE "fieldname" \* CHARFORMAT }

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Yolande Choquette]

How do you that specifically?

You add what in your main document, or what in you data file? and where do
you take those codes?


Yolande Choquette

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Yolande,

In the mailmerge main document, press Alt+F9 to toggle on the field codes
and add the \* CHARFORMAT switch inside the closing }.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP