Losing bold and underline with INCLUDETEXT

[Kathy Webster]

I am so so so tired of trying to do something that should be so simple...

My merge document has the following:

Yada yada
{INCLUDETEXT "c:\\morestuff.doc" \* MERGEFORMAT}
Bla bla.

My "c:\morestuff.doc" has the following:

Hoodie hoodie [bold and underlined word] yuk yuk.

When the merge is executed, result is:

Yada yada
Hoodie hoodie [word NO LONGER BOLD OR UNDERLINED] yuk yuk.
Bla bla.

Please help, while I'm still young. Also, I tried setting bold and
underline with styles, and that was a dee-zaster, too.

Kathy

 

[Bear]

Kathy:

In Word 2000 I performed a simple experiment, using two versions of the
field code:

{ INCLUDETEXT "D:\\Tests\\subbie.doc" \* mergeformat }
{ INCLUDETEXT "D:\\Tests\\subbie.doc" }

In my case, it was the \* MergeFormat switch that was obliterating the bold
and underline in subbie.doc. Try deleting that part of your field and see
what happens when you update the field (F9).

Bear

 

[Kathy Webster]

Oh my...will you marry me???!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It
WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bear]

Kathy:

Sorry, but I'm taken. You could rate the post if you wanted to demonstrate
your undying affection. :-}

And seriously, it's great just to be able to help out.

Bear

 

[Kathy Webster]

How do I rate the post?> Kathy:

Sorry, but I'm taken. You could rate the post if you wanted to demonstrate
your undying affection. :-}

And seriously, it's great just to be able to help out.

Bear

 

[Peter Jamieson]

There may be other ways, but...

If you are posting/viewing your messages via te Microsoft communities
(www.microsoft.com/communities ) then you are probably seeing a 3-column
layout titled "Office Online". The 3rd column hwould typically have the
message you have currently selected, and at the bottom of that you would see
a thing saying "Was this post helpful to you" and a link to "Why should I
rate a post>"

If you happen to be using Windows Vista "Windows Mail", there is another
mechanism that allows you to rate a post.

However, this is just one of many web-based interfaces to what used to be
known as the "Usenet Newsgroups" or "NNTP Newsgroups", and there may be
other rating systems.

Since I don't think any Microsoft employee has ever posted a response in
this particular newsgroup in the entire time (say 5 years) I've been posting
here, and the name they have in their "communities" does not actually match
the name of the "NNTP" newsgroup, it's slightly bizarre that they maintain a
rating system, but there you go...

Peter Jamieson