Mail Merge Font

[Amanda M. Mastin]

I Have a macro that I play in my data source for my mail
merge. In this macro there is a few words that are bold
and the rest are not. When I merge the data source the
bolded words are no longer bold. Is there a way that I can
keep only a few words bold in 1 merge field without going
into the merged document and bolding them?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

If your data source is a Word document, you may be able to use a trick to
preserve some formatting: suppose you use { MERGEFIELD xyz } in your mail
merge main document to include the text (use Alt-F9 to see the field codes).
Delete the word MERGEFIELD so you are left with { xyz }, and try again.

This trick only really works with data sources that Word considers to be
word documents.

 

[Amanda M. Mastin]

I did what you suggested and it worked wonderfully for one
of my documents but it did not work for another. Why?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Why?

I have no idea since you provide absolutely no information about what the
difference between your documents might be.

It's worth bearing in mind that you are using a "trick", which means there
are probably lots of cases in which it won't work.

My best guess is that you could be using a field name that is the same as a
built-in Word field such as "TITLE", which will give entirely the wrong
result.

Otherwise, what /is/ the difference between the two documents?