how to correctly use word mail merge for RTF text?

[C Villalba]

I have xml that contains many records, these record conatin fields that are
regular text and 1 field whose contents is rtf text. I have .net code that
converts to CSV file in order to use word merge functionality aslo in .net,
but this has the effect of only merging the rtf code not the actual text and
formatting, all the normal text merges fine. What is the best way to
accomplish what i am looking to do, which is to merge all the regular text
and merge the formatted rtf text correctly. Thanks.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

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I have xml that contains many records, these record conatin fields that are
regular text and 1 field whose contents is rtf text. I have .net code that
converts to CSV file in order to use word merge functionality aslo in .net,
but this has the effect of only merging the rtf code not the actual text and
formatting, all the normal text merges fine. What is the best way to
accomplish what i am looking to do, which is to merge all the regular text
and merge the formatted rtf text correctly.

You'd need to transform the entire file into RTF, with an RTF file extension.
Then Word should <fingers crossed> automatically use its RTF converter when it
accesses the data file.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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