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Message: [QUOTE="Cindy M -WordMVP-, post: 5304740"] Hi all, MergeFormat will seem to work correctly, at first. Where the "gotcha" comes in is if the LENGTH of the text the field is displaying should change (more text). At some later point, you're likely to see that the field result has mixed formatting. The MergeFormat field is designed to (try to) remember what formatting was applied where in the field result. So mixed formatting would be allowed (something \* CharFormat doesn't support). The problem is, once MergeFormat has stored something, it's next to impossible to make the field "behave" without removing the switch... In my experience, it's really only useful when linking in Excel tables or Databases (and even then, the same limitations apply if the amount of data being displayed changes). Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland [URL]http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister[/URL] (last update Jun 8 2004) [URL]http://www.word.mvps.org[/URL] This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) [/QUOTE]